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Selected Verse: Proverbs 5:10 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 5:10 |
King James |
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; |
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] |
wealth--literally, "strength," or the result of it.
labours--the fruit of thy painful exertions (Psa 127:2). There may be a reference to slavery, a commuted punishment for death due the adulterer (Deu 22:22). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Strangers - The whole gang of those into whose hands the slave of lust yields himself. The words are significant as showing that the older punishment of death Deu 22:21; Eze 16:38; Joh 8:5 was not always inflicted, and that the detected adulterer was exposed rather to indefinite extortion. Besides loss of purity and peace, the sin, in all its forms, brings poverty. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Strangers - Not only the strange women themselves, but others who are in league with them. Labors - Wealth gotten by thy labours. |
22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.