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Proverbs (Mishlei) is the manual of applied wisdom for covenant living. Wisdom in Proverbs is not abstract philosophy but ordered perception of reality — the recognition that creation has a moral grain, that fear of YHWH is the beginning of all true knowledge, and that human flourishing follows the design built into the fabric of things.
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- Primary Witness Text: My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. And why wilt...
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Proverbs (Mishlei) is the manual of applied wisdom for covenant living. Wisdom in Proverbs is not abstract philosophy but ordered perception of reality — the recognition that creation has a moral grain, that fear of YHWH is the beginning of all true knowledge, and that human flourishing follows the design built into the fabric of things.
Proverbs 8's personified Wisdom — present at creation, delighting before God — is cited by early Church Fathers as a window into the eternal Son. The book's practical ethics (sexual integrity, speech, work, generosity) embody a worldview in which creation's design is the source of moral instruction.
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Proverbs 5:1
Hebrew
בְּנִי לְחָכְמָתִי הַקְשִׁיבָה לִתְבוּנָתִי הַט־אָזְנֶֽךָ׃veniy-lechakhematiy-haqeshiyvah-litevvnatiy-hat-'azenekha
KJV: My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
AKJV: My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
ASV: My son, attend unto my wisdom;
YLT: My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,
Exposition: Proverbs 5:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:2
Hebrew
לִשְׁמֹר מְזִמּוֹת וְדַעַת שְׂפָתֶיךָ יִנְצֹֽרוּ׃lishemor-mezimvot-veda'at-shefateykha-yinetzorv
KJV: That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
AKJV: That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge. ¶
ASV: That thou mayest preserve discretion,
YLT: To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.
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Proverbs 5:2
Proverbs 5:2 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:3
Hebrew
כִּי נֹפֶת תִּטֹּפְנָה שִׂפְתֵי זָרָה וְחָלָק מִשֶּׁמֶן חִכָּֽהּ׃khiy-nofet-titofenah-shifetey-zarah-vechalaq-mishemen-chikhah
KJV: For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
AKJV: For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
ASV: For the lips of a strange woman drop honey,
YLT: For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,
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Proverbs 5:3
Verse 3 The lips of a strange woman - One that is not thy own, whether Jewess or heathen. Drop as a honey-comb - She uses the most deceitful, flattering, and alluring speeches: as the droppings of the honey out of the comb are the sweetest of all.
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Proverbs 5:3
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:4
Hebrew
וְֽאַחֲרִיתָהּ מָרָה כַֽלַּעֲנָה חַדָּה כְּחֶרֶב פִּיּֽוֹת׃ve'achariytah-marah-khala'anah-chadah-khecherev-fiyvot
KJV: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
AKJV: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
ASV: But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
YLT: And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths.
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Verse 4 Bitter as wormwood - כלענה Kelanah, like the detestable herb wormwood, or something analogous to it: something as excessive in its bitterness, as honey is in its sweetness.
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:5
Hebrew
רַגְלֶיהָ יֹרְדוֹת מָוֶת שְׁאוֹל צְעָדֶיהָ יִתְמֹֽכוּ׃rageleyha-yoredvot-mavet-she'vol-tze'adeyha-yitemokhv
KJV: Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
AKJV: Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
ASV: Her feet go down to death;
YLT: Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
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Proverbs 5:5
Verse 5 Her feet go down to death - She first, like a serpent, infuses her poison, by which the whole constitution of her paramour is infected, which soon or late brings on death. Her steps take hold on hell - First, the death of the body; and then the damnation of the soul. These are the tendencies of connections with such women.
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:6
Hebrew
אֹרַח חַיִּים פֶּן־תְּפַלֵּס נָעוּ מַעְגְּלֹתֶיהָ לֹא תֵדֽ͏ָע׃'orach-chayiym-fen-tefales-na'v-ma'egeloteyha-lo'-teda'
KJV: Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
AKJV: Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
ASV: So that she findeth not the level path of life:
YLT: The path of life--lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths--thou knowest not.
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Proverbs 5:6
Verse 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder - To prevent thee from reflecting on thy present conduct, and its consequences, her ways are moveable - she continually varies her allurements. Thou canst not know them - It is impossible to conceive all her tricks and wiles: to learn these in all their varieties, is a part of the science first taught in that infernal trade.
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:7
Hebrew
וְעַתָּה בָנִים שִׁמְעוּ־לִי וְאַל־תָּסוּרוּ מֵאִמְרֵי־פִֽי׃ve'atah-vaniym-shime'v-liy-ve'al-tasvrv-me'imerey-fiy
KJV: Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
AKJV: Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
ASV: Now therefore, mysons, hearken unto me,
YLT: And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.
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Proverbs 5:7
Verse 7 Hear me - O ye children - בנים banim, sons, young men in general: for these are the most likely to be deceived and led astray.
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:8
Hebrew
הַרְחֵק מֵעָלֶיהָ דַרְכֶּךָ וְאַל־תִּקְרַב אֶל־פֶּתַח בֵּיתָֽהּ׃harecheq-me'aleyha-darekhekha-ve'al-tiqerav-'el-fetach-veytah
KJV: Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
AKJV: Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:
ASV: Remove thy way far from her,
YLT: Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,
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Proverbs 5:8
Verse 8 Come not nigh the door of her house - Where there are generally such exhibitions as have a natural tendency to excite impure thoughts, and irregular passions.
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:9
Hebrew
פֶּן־תִּתֵּן לַאֲחֵרִים הוֹדֶךָ וּשְׁנֹתֶיךָ לְאַכְזָרִֽי׃fen-titen-la'acheriym-hvodekha-vshenoteykha-le'akhezariy
KJV: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
AKJV: Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:
ASV: Lest thou give thine honor unto others,
YLT: Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,
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Proverbs 5:9
Verse 9 Lest thou give thine honor - The character of a debauchee is universally detested: by this, even those of noble blood lose their honor and respect. Thy years unto the cruel - Though all the blandishments of love dwell on the tongue, and the excess of fondness appear in the whole demeanor of the harlot and the prostitute; yet cruelty has its throne in their hearts; and they will rob and murder (when it appears to answer their ends) those who give their strength, their wealth, and their years to them. The unfaithful wife has often murdered her own husband for the sake of her paramour, and has given him over to justice in order to save herself. Murders have often taken place in brothels, as well as robberies; for the vice of prostitution is one of the parents of cruelty.
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:10
Hebrew
פֶּֽן־יִשְׂבְּעוּ זָרִים כֹּחֶךָ וַעֲצָבֶיךָ בְּבֵית נָכְרֽ͏ִי׃fen-yisheve'v-zariym-khochekha-va'atzaveykha-veveyt-nakheriy
KJV: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
AKJV: Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;
ASV: Lest strangers be filled with thy strength,
YLT: Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 5:10Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 5:10
Proverbs 5:10 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:11
Hebrew
וְנָהַמְתָּ בְאַחֲרִיתֶךָ בִּכְלוֹת בְּשָׂרְךָ וּשְׁאֵרֶֽךָ׃venahameta-ve'achariytekha-vikhelvot-vesharekha-vshe'erekha
KJV: And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
AKJV: And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
ASV: And thou mourn at thy latter end,
YLT: And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
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Proverbs 5:11
Verse 11 When thy flesh and thy body are consumed - The word שאר shear, which we render body, signifies properly the remains, residue, or remnant of a thing: and is applied here to denote the breathing carcass, putrid with the concomitant disease of debauchery: a public reproach which the justice of God entails on this species of iniquity. The mourning here spoken of is of the most excessive kind: the word נהם naham is often applied to the growling of a lion, and the hoarse incessant murmuring of the sea. In the line of my duty, I have been often called to attend the death-bed of such persons, where groans and shrieks were incessant through the jaculating pains in their bones and flesh. Whoever has witnessed a closing scene like this will at once perceive with what force and propriety the wise man speaks. And How have I hated instruction, and despised the voice of my teachers! is the unavailing cry in that terrific time. Reader, whosoever thou art, lay these things to heart. Do not enter into their sin: once entered, thy return is nearly hopeless.
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:12
Hebrew
וְֽאָמַרְתָּ אֵיךְ שָׂנֵאתִי מוּסָר וְתוֹכַחַת נָאַץ לִבִּֽי׃ve'amareta-'eykhe-shane'tiy-mvsar-vetvokhachat-na'atz-liviy
KJV: And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
AKJV: And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
ASV: And say, How have I hated instruction,
YLT: And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 5:12Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 5:12
Proverbs 5:12 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
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- Proverbs 5:12
Exposition: Proverbs 5:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:13
Hebrew
וְֽלֹא־שָׁמַעְתִּי בְּקוֹל מוֹרָי וְלִֽמְלַמְּדַי לֹא־הִטִּיתִי אָזְנִֽי׃velo'-shama'etiy-veqvol-mvoray-velimelameday-lo'-hitiytiy-'azeniy
KJV: And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
AKJV: And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!
ASV: Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers,
YLT: And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 5:13Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 5:13
Proverbs 5:13 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Proverbs 5:13
Exposition: Proverbs 5:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:14
Hebrew
כִּמְעַט הָיִיתִי בְכָל־רָע בְּתוֹךְ קָהָל וְעֵדָֽה׃khime'at-hayiytiy-vekhal-ra'-vetvokhe-qahal-ve'edah
KJV: I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
AKJV: I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly. ¶
ASV: I was well-nigh in all evil
YLT: As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 5:14Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 5:14
Verse 14 I was almost in all evil - This vice, like a whirlpool, sweeps all others into its vortex. In the midst of the congregation and assembly - In the mydel of the Curche and of the Synagoge - Old MS. Bible. Such persons, however sacred the place, carry about with them eyes full of adultery, which cannot cease from sin.
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:15
Hebrew
שְׁתֵה־מַיִם מִבּוֹרֶךָ וְנֹזְלִים מִתּוֹךְ בְּאֵרֶֽךָ׃sheteh-mayim-mivvorekha-venozeliym-mitvokhe-ve'erekha
KJV: Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
AKJV: Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
ASV: Drink waters out of thine own cistern,
YLT: Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
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Proverbs 5:15
Verse 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern - Be satisfied with thy own wife; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband; and not tempt him by inattention or unkindness to seek elsewhere what he has a right to expect, but cannot find, at home.
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Proverbs 5:15
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:16
Hebrew
יָפוּצוּ מַעְיְנֹתֶיךָ חוּצָה בָּרְחֹבוֹת פַּלְגֵי־מָֽיִם׃yafvtzv-ma'eyenoteykha-chvtzah-varechovvot-falegey-mayim
KJV: Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
AKJV: Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
ASV: Should thy springs be dispersed abroad,
YLT: Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 5:16Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 5:16
Proverbs 5:16 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Proverbs 5:16
Exposition: Proverbs 5:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:17
Hebrew
יִֽהְיוּ־לְךָ לְבַדֶּךָ וְאֵין לְזָרִים אִתָּֽךְ׃yiheyv-lekha-levadekha-ve'eyn-lezariym-'itakhe
KJV: Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
AKJV: Let them be only your own, and not strangers’ with you.
ASV: Let them be for thyself alone,
YLT: Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 5:17Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 5:17
Verse 17 Let them be only thine own - The off-spring of a legitimate connection; a bastard brood, however numerous, is no credit to any man.
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Proverbs 5:17
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:18
Hebrew
יְהִֽי־מְקוֹרְךָ בָרוּךְ וּשְׂמַח מֵאֵשֶׁת נְעוּרֶֽךָ׃yehiy-meqvorekha-varvkhe-vshemach-me'eshet-ne'vrekha
KJV: Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
AKJV: Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
ASV: Let thy fountain be blessed;
YLT: Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
Commentary WitnessProverbs 5:18Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 5:18
Verse 18 Let thy fountain be blessed - יהי מקורך ברוך yehi mekorecha baruch. Sit vena tua benedicta. Thy vein; that which carries off streams from the fountain of animal life, in order to disperse them abroad, and through the streets. How delicate and correct is the allusion here! But anatomical allusions must not be pressed into detail in a commentary on Scripture.
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Proverbs 5:18
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- Scripture
Exposition: Proverbs 5:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:19
Hebrew
אַיֶּלֶת אֲהָבִים וְֽיַעֲלַת־חֵן דַּדֶּיהָ יְרַוֻּךָ בְכָל־עֵת בְּאַהֲבָתָהּ תִּשְׁגֶּה תָמִֽיד׃'ayelet-'ahaviym-veya'alat-chen-dadeyha-yeravukha-vekhal-'et-ve'ahavatah-tishegeh-tamiyd
KJV: Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
AKJV: Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.
ASV: Asa loving hind and a pleasant doe,
YLT: A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 5:19Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 5:19
Verse 19 The loving hind and pleasant roe - By אילת aiyeleth, the deer; by יעלה yaalah, the ibex or mountain goat, may be meant. Let her breasts satisfy thee - As the infant is satisfied with the breasts of its mother; so shouldst thou be with the wife of thy youth.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Proverbs 5:19
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:20
Hebrew
וְלָמָּה תִשְׁגֶּה בְנִי בְזָרָה וּתְחַבֵּק חֵק נָכְרִיָּֽה׃velamah-tishegeh-veniy-vezarah-vtechaveq-cheq-nakheriyah
KJV: And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
AKJV: And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
ASV: For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
YLT: And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 5:20Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 5:20
Proverbs 5:20 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
Canonical locus
Proverbs 5:20
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Proverbs 5:20
Exposition: Proverbs 5:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:21
Hebrew
כִּי נֹכַח ׀ עֵינֵי יְהוָה דַּרְכֵי־אִישׁ וְֽכָל־מַעְגְּלֹתָיו מְפַלֵּֽס׃khiy-nokhach- -'eyney-yehvah-darekhey-'iysh-vekhal-ma'egelotayv-mefales
KJV: For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
AKJV: For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings. ¶
ASV: For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah;
YLT: For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 5:21Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 5:21
Verse 21 For the ways of a man - Whether they are public or private, God sees all the steps thou takest in life.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Proverbs 5:21
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:22
Hebrew
עַֽווֹנוֹתָיו יִלְכְּדֻנוֹ אֶת־הָרָשָׁע וּבְחַבְלֵי חַטָּאתוֹ יִתָּמֵֽךְ׃'avvonvotayv-yilekhedunvo-'et-harasha'-vvechaveley-chata'tvo-yitamekhe
KJV: His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
AKJV: His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
ASV: His own iniquities shall take the wicked,
YLT: His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 5:22Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 5:22
Verse 22 He shall be holden with the cords of his sins - Most people who follow unlawful pleasures, think they can give them up whenever they please; but sin repeated becomes customary; custom soon engenders habit; and habit in the end assumes the form of necessity; the man becomes bound with his own cords, and so is led captive by the devil at his will.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Proverbs 5:22
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 5:23
Hebrew
הוּא יָמוּת בְּאֵין מוּסָר וּבְרֹב אִוַּלְתּוֹ יִשְׁגֶּֽה׃hv'-yamvt-ve'eyn-mvsar-vverov-'ivaletvo-yishegeh
KJV: He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
AKJV: He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
ASV: He shall die for lack of instruction;
YLT: He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
Commentary WitnessProverbs 5:23Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Proverbs 5:23
Verse 23 He shall die without instruction - This is most likely, and it is a general case; but even these may repent and live.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Proverbs 5:23
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Exposition: Proverbs 5:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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- Proverbs 5:1
- Proverbs 5:2
- Proverbs 5:3
- Proverbs 5:4
- Proverbs 5:5
- Proverbs 5:6
- Proverbs 5:7
- Proverbs 5:8
- Proverbs 5:9
- Proverbs 5:10
- Proverbs 5:11
- Proverbs 5:12
- Proverbs 5:13
- Proverbs 5:14
- Proverbs 5:15
- Proverbs 5:16
- Proverbs 5:17
- Proverbs 5:18
- Proverbs 5:19
- Proverbs 5:20
- Proverbs 5:21
- Proverbs 5:22
- Proverbs 5:23
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Haggai
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Zechariah
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Malachi
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Matthew
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Mark
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Luke
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John
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Acts
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Romans
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1 Corinthians
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2 Corinthians
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Galatians
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Ephesians
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Philippians
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Colossians
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1 Thessalonians
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2 Thessalonians
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1 Timothy
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2 Timothy
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Titus
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Philemon
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Hebrews
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James
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1 Peter
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2 Peter
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1 John
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2 John
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3 John
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Jude
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Revelation
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Commentary Witness
Proverbs 5:1
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Proverbs 5:1
Source lane
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