Proverbs 6:26

Can a man take fire in his bosom,.... A whore is compared to fire, and is so called by the poets (o); and it is a saying of Pythagoras,

"it is a like thing to fall into fire and into a woman (p);''…

The two forms of evil bring, each of them, their own penalty. By the one a man is brought to such poverty as to beg for “a piece of bread” (compare 1Sa 2:36): by the other and more deadly sin he…

Here is, I. A general exhortation faithfully to adhere to the word of God and to take it for our guide in all our actions.

1. We must look upon the word of God both as a light (Pro 6:23) and as a law,…

the adulteress Lit. a man's wife. It is the same woman who is contemplated in both clauses of the verse, a married woman, who has become a "whorish woman."

will hunt Rather, hunteth, R.V. Not only…