Proverbs Chapter 5 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 5:1

My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:
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BBE Proverbs 5:1

My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
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DARBY Proverbs 5:1

My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding;
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KJV Proverbs 5:1

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
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WBT Proverbs 5:1


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WEB Proverbs 5:1

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:
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YLT Proverbs 5:1

My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-23. - 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced at before in Proverbs 2:15-19, and which he again treats of in the latter part of the sixth and in the whole of the seventh chapters. This constant recurrence to the same subject, repulsive on account of its associations, shows, however, the importance which it had in the teacher's estimation as a ground of warning, and that he ranked it among the foremost of the temptations and sins which called the young off from the pursuit of Wisdom, and so led them astray from "the fear of the Lord." The vividness with which the ruin, bodily and moral, ensuing with absolute certainty on a life of vice, is described is a sufficient proof in itself that the subject before us is not brought forward from or for voluptuous motives, but for the purpose of conveying an impressive warning. Some commentators, e.g. Delitzsch, include the first six verses in the previous discourse; but the unity of the subject requires a different treatment. Zockler's reason against this arrangement, on the ground that the previous discourse was addressed to "tender youth," and thus to youth in a state of pupilage, while the one before us refers to more advanced age - to the married man - may be true, but is not the true ground for incorporating them in the present discourse. The unity of the subject requires that they should be taken with the central and didactic part of the discourse, as being in a sense introductory to it. The discourse divides itself into three sections. (1) The earnest appeal to attention because of the counter-attraction in the blandishments of the harlot, which, however, in the end, are bitter as wormwood and sharp as a two-edged sword (vers. 1-6). (2) The main or didactic section (vers. 7-20), embracing (a) warnings against adulterous intercourse with "the strange woman" (vers. 7-14); . . .

Ellicott's Commentary