Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 5:10
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors [be] in the house of a stranger;
10. wealth ] The word may mean either that which a man acquires, his wealth (A.V. text, R.V. marg.), or that by which he acquires it, his strength (R.V. text, A.V. marg.) of mind and body. Gen 49:3 would seem to favour the latter rendering here. , LXX., viribus tuis, Vulg. The suggestion of Ewald and others that these verses (9, 10) point to the commutation of the capital sentence into one of slavery, whether voluntarily undergone by the adulterer to escape death, or exacted by the injured husband, and that thus the guilty man’s years would be given unto the cruel, and his labours would be in the house of an alien, is not supported by any proof that such commutation was practised. On the contrary the holy law (Deu 22:22) appears to nave been strictly maintained (Eze 16:38; Eze 16:40; Joh 8:5); and in Pro 6:34-35 we are expressly told that the husband will accept no compensation. While escaping, probably because undetected, the penalty of death, the victim of lust would like the prodigal son “devour his living with harlots,” and so come to be in want and misery.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Strangers; not only the strange women themselves, but bawds, panders, and other adulterers, who are in league with them.
Thy labours; wealth gotten by thy labours.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
10. wealthliterally,”strength,” or the result of it.
laboursthe fruit ofthy painful exertions (Ps 127:2).There may be a reference to slavery, a commuted punishment for deathdue the adulterer (De 22:22).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth,…. The adulteress, her husband, children, friends, bawds, and such like persons she is concerned with; these share the wealth of the adulterer, abound with it, and live profusely on it, until he is stripped quite bare and destitute: or, “with thy strength”; [See comments on Pr 5:9]. Jarchi interprets it of the prophets of Baal, that exact money by their falsehoods; it may well enough be applied to the fornicating merchants of Rome, who wax rich through the abundance of her delicacies and adulteries, Re 18:3; persons, strangers indeed to God and Christ, and all true religion;
and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger; that is, wealth gotten by hard labour, with toil and sweat, grief and trouble, as the word used q signifies; and yet, after all, not enjoyed by himself and his lawful wife and children, but by the strange woman and her accomplices, and spent in maintaining whores, bawds, and bastards; hence the fable of the Harpies eating and spoiling the victuals of Phineus, who were no other than harlots that consumed his substance r: and sometimes they are carried into a strange country, and possessed by foreigners. These are the wretched effects and miserable consequences of adultery, and therefore by all means to be shunned and avoided. Jarchi understands it of the house of idolatry, or an idol’s temple; and everyone knows what vast riches are brought into the temples or churches of the Papists by idolatry.
q “dolores tui”, Montanus, Cocceius, Michaelis. r Heraclitus de Incredibil. c. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
10. Lest strangers Those of another family, perhaps of another country, satiate their lusts at thy expense, and furnish their house and table with the fruits of thy labour. Some suppose the allusion is to the prosecution of the adulterer, and the sale of him as a bondman.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Pro 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
Ver. 10. Lest strangers be filled. ] This sin is a purgatory to the purse, though a paradise to the desires. How soon had the prodigal A , Luk 15:13 , quasi wasted his portion when once he fell among harlots, those sordida poscinummia, those crumenimulgae. “Ask me never so much gift, and I will give it,” said Shechem. Gen 34:12 “What pledge shall I give thee? and she said, Thy signet, thy bracelets,” &c., Gen 37:18 and if she had asked more, she might have had it. “Ask what thou wilt, and it shall be given thee,” said Herod to his dancing damsel; nay, he sware “to her that whatsoever she should ask, he would give it to her to the half of his kingdom,” Mar 6:22-23 so strongly was he enchanted and bewitched with her tripping on the toe and wanton dancing. a This detestable sin is able to destroy kings, as Solomon’s mother taught him. Pro 31:3 And surely Solomon by the many women that he kept, was so exhausted in his estate (for all his great riches) that he was forced to oppress his subjects with heavy taxes and tributes, which occasioned the revolt of ten tribes. The whore “lyeth in wait for a prey,” Pro 23:28 and “by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a morsel of bread” Pro 6:26 – to extreme beggary.
a , tripudiabat baccharum more.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
wealth. Hebrew strength: put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what is produced by it.
labours. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for what is produced by it.
a stranger = a foreigner. Hebrew. nakar. Not the same word as in verses: Pro 5:3, Pro 5:17. See note above and on Pro 2:16.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
strangers: Pro 6:35, Hos 7:9, Luk 15:30
wealth: Heb. strength, Pro 31:3
Reciprocal: Pro 6:26 – by Pro 21:17 – loveth Rom 6:21 – What
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy {f} labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
(f) The goods gotten by your travel.