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Selected Verse: Proverbs 7:21 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 7:21 |
King James |
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
caused . . . yield--or, "inclines."
flattering--(Compare Pro 5:3).
forced him--by persuasion overcoming his scruples. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Fair speech - The Hebrew word is usually translated "doctrine," or "learning" Pro 1:5; Pro 4:2; Pro 9:9; possibly it is used here in keen irony. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The result: -
21 She beguiled him by the fulness of her talking,
By the smoothness of her lips she drew him away.
Here is a climax. First she brought him to yield, overcoming the resistance of his mind to the last point (cf. Kg1 11:3); then drove him, or, as we say, hurried him wholly away, viz., from the right path or conduct (cf. Deu 13:6, Deu 13:11). With הטּתּוּ (= הטּתהוּ) as the chief factum, the past imperf. is interchanged, 21b. Regarding לקח, see above, p. 56. Here is the rhetoric of sin (Zckler); and perhaps the לקח of 20a has suggested this antiphrastic לקח to the author (Hitzig), as חלק (the inverted לקח, formed like שׁפל, which is the abstr. of שׁפל as that is of חלק) and תּדּיחנּוּ are reciprocally conditioned, for the idea of the slippery (Psa 73:18) connects itself with חלק. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| With her much fair speech - With her blandishments and lascivious talk, she overcame all his scruples, and constrained him to yield. |
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.