Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 9:15
To call passengers who go right on their ways:
15. who go right on their ways ] who are not putting themselves in the way of temptation by loitering or straying into by-ways, but who, though in the path of duty, are unwary and unsuspecting, and so need warning.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Pro 9:15
To call passengers who go right on their ways.
The tempted ones
Who are the tempted? Young people who have been well-educated; these she will triumph most in being the ruin of.
I. What their real character is. Passengers that go right on their ways; that have been trained up in the paths of religion and virtue, and set out very hopefully and well; that seemed determined and designed for good, and are not (as that young man in Pro 7:8) going the way to her house. Such as these she has a design upon, and lays snares for, and uses all her arts, all her charms, to pervert them; if they go right on, and will not look toward her, she will call after them, so urgent are these temptations.
II. How the foolish woman represents them. She calls them simple and wanting understanding, and therefore courts them to her school, that they may be cured of the restraints and formalities of their religion. This is the method of the stage, where the sober young man that has been virtuously educated is the fool in the play, and the plot is to make him seven times more a child of hell than his profane companions, under colour of polishing and refining him, and setting him up for a wit and a beau. What is justly charged upon sin and impiety (Pro 9:4) that it is folly, is here very unjustly retorted upon the ways of virtue; but the day will declare who are the fools. (Matthew Henry.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Who were going innocently and directly about their business without any unchaste design; for others needed none of those invitations or offers, but went to her of their own accord. And besides, such lewd persons take a greater pleasure in corrupting the innocent.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
15, 16. to allure those who areright-minded, and who are addressed as in Pr9:4, as
simplethat is, easilyled (Pr 1:4) and unsettled,though willing to do right.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
To call passengers who go right on their ways. Who have been religiously educated, and trained up in the principles of true Christianity; and who walk outwardly according to the rule of the divine word, and are in a fair way for heaven and eternal happiness. These she has her eye upon as they pass along, and calls unto them, and endeavours to turn them aside out of the way they are going, to make them proselytes to her antichristian religion; which, when she succeeds in, she glories and boasts of; just as harlots are very desirous of seducing and debauching chaste, innocent, and virtuous persons; see Re 2:20. Saying as follows:
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
15. To call passengers This is her object, to draw even those aside into her haunts of folly and impurity who are going straight forward to the school of wisdom and virtue. She is, in this respect, a fair representative of the modern “saloon keeper.”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Pro 9:15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Ver. 15. That go right on their way. ] She fights at the fairest, seeks to seduce the forwardest. “They shall deceive, if it were possible, the very elect.” Mat 24:24 Flies settle upon the sweetest perfumes when they are cold, and corrupt them.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Who go right, &c = passing on their way, or [To call them ] that go straight forward, &c.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Pro 7:13-15, Pro 7:25-27, Pro 23:27, Pro 23:28
Reciprocal: Eze 16:25 – at every