Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
14. a deep pit ] such as is dug by a hunter for his prey. Comp. Pro 23:27.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The fall of the man into the snare of the harlot seems to be the consequence of the abhorrence or wrath of Yahweh. That abhorrence is, however, the result of previous evil. The man is left to himself, and sin becomes the penalty of sin.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit] In Pr 23:27, he says, A whore is a DEEP DITCH:, and a strange woman is a NARROW PIT. The allusions in these three places are too plain to be misunderstood. Virgil’s hell has been adduced in illustration: –
—————-Sate sanguine Divum,
Tros Anchisiade, facilis decensus Averni;
Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis:
Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras,
HOC OPUS, hic LABOR est. Pauci quos aequus amavit
Jupiter, aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus,
Dis geniti potuere.
VIRG. AEn. lib. vi., ver. 125.
“O glorious prince of brave Anchises’ line!
Great godlike hero! sprung from seed divine,
Smooth lies the road to Pluto’s gloomy shade;
And hell’s black gates for ever stand display’d:
But ’tis a long unconquerable pain,
To climb to these ethereal realms again.
The choice-selected few, whom favouring Jove,
Or their own virtue, rais’d to heaven above,
From these dark realms emerged again to day;
The mighty sons of gods, and only they.
PITT.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The mouth; her fair and flattering speeches, wherewith she enticeth him to gross filthiness, as it is noted, Pro 7:21.
A deep pit; into which it is easy to fall, but hard, if not impossible, to get out of it. It is a rare thing for any person, once entered into the course of whoredom, sincerely to repent of it, and turn from it. See Pro 2:19.
That is abhorred of the Lord, to wit, in a high and singular manner; who by his former impieties, and contempt of God and of his grace, hath provoked God to leave and loathe him, and to punish one sin with another; for otherwise all sinners, as such, are abhorred by God.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. The mouthor flatteringspeeches (Pro 5:3; Pro 7:5)ensnare man, as pits, beasts. God makes their own sin theirpunishment.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit,…. The mouth of harlots; the kisses of their mouth, their fair speech and flattering words, their amorous talk, and lascivious and wanton language, ensnare and draw unwary persons to commit lewdness with them, which bring them into a pit of ruin and destruction; a filthy one, and very deep, out of which it is not easy nor usual to be extricated: the allusion is to beasts taken in a pit dug for them; and these are as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed;
he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein; who has been guilty of other sins, and such as have caused the Lord to abhor him, and therefore leaves him to fall into this: one sin not only leads on to another, but is the punishment of another; men are seldom guilty of this sin of whoredom, but who have been first abandoned to other vices very provoking to. God; see Ec 7:26. Jarchi interprets all this of idolatry; and it may be very well applied to the whore of Rome, and the harlots she is mother of; who, by her fair words and false doctrines, by her mouth speaking blasphemies and lies in hypocrisy, by her golden cup in her hand full of abomination and filthiness of fornication, and by her sorceries, have deceived many, and brought them into the pit of perdition and ruin: and these are such whose names are not written in the Lamb’s book of life; but are rejected of God, and given up to believe a lie, that they might be damned, Re 17:4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
14 A deep pit is the mouth of a strange woman;
He that is cursed of God falleth therein.
The first line appears in a different form as a synonymous distich, Pro 23:27. The lxx translate without certainly indicating which word they here read, whether (Pro 4:14), or (Pro 29:12), or (Pro 3:32). Pro 23:27 is adduced in support of ( vid., Pro 2:16); (harlots) are meant, and it is not necessary thus to read with Ewald. The mouth of this strange woman or depraved Israelitess is a deep ditch ( , otherwise , as Pro 23:27, where also occurs
(Note: The text to Immanuel’s Comment. (Naples 1487) has in both instances .)
namely, a snare-pit into which he is enticed by her wanton words; the man who stands in fellowship with God is armed against this syren voice; but the ‘ , i.e., he who is an object of the divine ( Venet. ), indignation, punishing evil with evil, falls into the pit, yielding to the seduction and the ruin. Schultens explains ‘ by, is in quem despumat indignabundus ; but the meaning despumat is not substantiated; , cf. Arab. zaghm , is probably a word which by its sound denoted anger as a hollow roaring, and like pealing thunder. The lxx has, after Pro 22:14, three tedious moralizing lines.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
This is designed to warn all young men against the lusts of uncleanness. As they regard the welfare of their souls, let them take heed of strange women, lewd women, whom they ought to be strange to, of the mouth of strange women, of the kisses of their lips (ch. vii. 13), of the words of their lips, their charms and enticements. Dread them; have nothing to do with them; for, 1. Those who abandon themselves to that sin give proof that they are abandoned of God: it is a deep pit, which those fall into that are abhorred of the Lord, who leaves them to themselves to enter into that temptation, and takes off the bridle of his restraining grace, to punish them for other sins. Value not thyself upon thy being in favour with such women, when it proclaims thee under the wrath of God. 2. It is seldom that they recover themselves, for it is a deep pit; it will be hard getting out of it, it so besots the mind and debauches the conscience, by pleasing the flesh.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
Warnings Against the Adulteress
Verse 14-See comment on Pro 2:16-22; Pro 5:1-23; Pro 6:24-35; Pro 7:6-27.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
MAIN HOMILETICS OF Pro. 22:14
A DEEP PIT
This verse treats of two classes of character, both of which have been depicted before. (See on chaps. Pro. 2:16-19, page 24, Pro. 6:24, page 89, Pro. 6:6-27, page 15).
I. The tempter. The strange womanthe woman who has been so deaf to the voice of all that is womanly as no longer to be worthy of the name, who instead of being mans helpmeet and endeavouring to win him to tread the path to heaven, is his curse and makes it her aim to drag him down to hell. Notice the main instrument of her destructive powerthe mouth. It is by her words of flattery and deception and persuasion that she ensnares her victim and compasses his ruin. History and experience confirm Solomons words, for, although external beauty is often a powerful ingredient in the temptation, it is not always so, and counts for very little if it is unaccompanied by that fascination of manner and of speech which have been used by so many bad women with such fatal effect. If we look at the portraits of some of those women who have exerted so mighty a power for evil in the world, we can seldom see sufficient beauty to account for the spell which they seemed to cast around their victims, and we must conclude therefore that it was rather to he found where Solomon puts it,who may be here speaking from bitter personal experienceviz., in the tongue. This proverb adds one more testimony to the many that have gone before of the immense power for evil or for good that is exerted by that little member of our bodily organism.
II. The tempted. He is here depicted as an unwary traveller along lifes highway easily deceived by the appearance of things, and, too careless or too unsuspecting to look beneath the surface, following the bent of his inclination and yielding to the voice of the charmer until he finds the ground giving way beneath his feet, and darkness and hopelessness all around him. Notice the fearful name here given to such an oneto one who is led away by such a tempter. He is abhorred of the Lord. Here is full evidence that God does not look upon human creatures with indifference as to their moral characterthat merciful Father though He is, He does not extend to men that indiscriminating and therefore worthless tenderness which some would have us believe is His main attributethat if men look upon sin as mere obedience to the dictates of nature, and therefore blameless, He does not so regard it. And if men will not attach any weight to the words of Scripturenot believing them to be infalliblethey can read the same truth in their every-day experience. The terrible retribution which comes upon those who listen to the words of the strange woman is a sufficient testimony to the abhorrence in which the Creator of men holds the sin to which she allures the unwary and the licentious man.
OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS
To what do the fearful words amount? To this: that in His righteous displeasure, there is not a heavier curse which an offended God can allow to fall upon the object of His wrath, than leaving him to be a prey to the seductive blandishments of an unprincipled woman:that if God held any one in abhorrence, this would be the severest vengeance He could take on him.Wardlaw.
The mouth of a strange woman is but the mouth of a far deeper pit, the pit of hell into which it openeth. The one is digged by the wickedness of men, the other by the justice of God.Jermin.
Fuente: The Preacher’s Complete Homiletical Commentary Edited by Joseph S. Exell
(14) Strange women.See above on Pro. 2:16.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
14. Mouth of strange women is a deep pit What their mouth utters is as dangerous and destructive to the unwary youth as a deep pit into which he is liable to fall. The difficulty, perhaps impossibility, of escaping from a deep pit, suggests also what is taught elsewhere in the book the hopelessness of those who form licentious habits. The fall of a man into the snare of a harlot is conceived of as a curse from Jehovah. He is given over to destruction. Compare Pro 2:16; Pro 5:3; Pro 6:24; Pro 7:5, et seq.; Pro 23:27.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
v. 14. The mouth of strange women,
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Pro 22:14. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit Maundrell, describing the passage out of the jurisdiction of the Basha of Aleppo into that of the Basha of Tripoli, tells us, that the road was rocky and uneven, but attended with variety. “Sometimes it led us under the cool shade of thick trees; sometimes through narrow valleys, watered with fresh murmuring torrents; and then for a good while together upon the brink of a precipice. And in all places it treated us with the prospect of plants and flowers of divers kinds, as myrtles, oleanders, cyclamens, &c. Having spent about two hours in this manner, we descended into a low valley; at the bottom of which is a fissure into the earth, of a great depth, but withal so narrow that it is not discernible to the eye, “till you arrive just upon it, though to the ear a notice of it is given at a great distance, by reason of the noise of a stream running down into it from the hills. We could not guess it to be less than thirty yards deep; but it is so narrow that a small arch, not four yards over, lands you on its other side. They call it the Sheik’s Wife; a name given it from a woman of that quality, who fell into it, and, I need not add, perished.” Now may not Solomon refer to some such dangerous place as this, in the present verse, The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit, &c. and chap. Pro 23:27. A whore is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit? The flowery pleasures of the place where this fatal pit was, make the allusion still more striking. How agreeable to sense the path which led to this chamber of death! See Observations, p. 219.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Pro 22:14 The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Ver. 14. The month of a strange woman. ] Diabolus capite blanditur, ventre oblectat, cauda ligat, saith Rupertus. These she sinners, as their gallants call them, are most dangerous. See Trapp on “ Pro 2:16 “ See Trapp on “ Pro 5:3 “ Solomon had the woeful experience of it; Ecc 7:26 and Samson, Jdg 16:18-21 who
“Lenam non potuit, potuit superare lesenam,
Quem fera non potuit vincere, vicit hera.”
How did David muddy himself in this deep pit, and there might have stuck in the mire, had not God drawn him out by a merciful violence, and purged him with hyssop from that abhorred filth? Psa 51:7
He that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
a Hist. David. Georgii.
b .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
strange = apostate. Hebrew. zur. S ee notes on Pro 2:16 with Pro 5:3.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Pro 22:14
Pro 22:14
“The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.”
This subject was practically exhausted in the first seven chapters of Proverbs. Our only marvel is that Solomon, of all people, could have said something like this. “The Lord is angry with the one who consorts with an adulteress.
Pro 22:14. Many times in Proverbs does the father warn the son about the wicked, immoral woman (Pro 2:16; Pro 5:3-23; Pro 6:24-35; Pro 7:5-27; Pro 23:27-28). Notice in the passages just cited how she uses her mouth (words and kisses) to break the young man down. Her mouth is said to be a deep pit into which men fall, and usually they do not get out! That God hates this sin in a terrible way, notice the strong language: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein. Ecc 7:26 says, I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
mouth: Pro 2:16-19, Pro 5:3-23, Pro 6:24-29, Pro 7:5-27, Pro 23:27, Jdg 16:20, Jdg 16:21, Neh 13:26, Ecc 7:26
a deep pit: That is, it is like a deep pit, or pitfall, in which animals are often taken alive.
abhorred: Deu 32:19, Psa 81:12
Reciprocal: Gen 39:8 – refused Gen 39:10 – as she spake Jdg 16:4 – he loved Jdg 16:6 – General 1Ki 11:1 – loved 1Ki 21:25 – whom Jezebel Job 31:9 – If mine Pro 5:20 – with Pro 23:28 – as for a prey
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 22:14. The mouth of strange women Their fair and flattering speeches, wherewith they entice men into sin, as is observed Pro 7:21, into which it is easy to fall, but out of which it is hard, if not impossible, to be rescued. For it is a rare thing for any person, who has once entered into a course of lewdness: to recover himself from it, Pro 2:19. He that is abhorred of the Lord Namely, in a high and singular manner; who by his former impieties, and contempt of God and his grace, hath provoked God to leave him to his own hearts lusts, and to punish one sin with another; shall fall therein And, without a miracle of grace, shall perish everlastingly.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
22:14 The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred by the LORD {k} shall fall in it.
(k) So God punishes one sin by another, when he suffers the wicked to fall into the acquaintance of a harlot.