Proverbs
5 – 6
Verses 5:3 & 4 is Solomon continuing to warn men about
lust:
3 You see,
the lips of a seductive woman speak honey-sweet words;
they are smooth like oil and enticing.
4 But in the end, she is bitter,
turning the stomach and rotting the soul;
she cuts as deep as a double-edged sword.
I read this and wonder is it Solomon warning himself or
bitterness over his father’s way. Either way this is basically a repeat of what
he warned about in verses 2:16-19, so there is emphasis either way. If you see
how many “wives” and “concubines” David and Solomon had one has to wonder about
their own lust. It seems if you like someone, marry them have sex and then pile
them in the closet with the others was the way of kings. So reading these words
makes me wonder, how bad was their lust? We look later in Solomon’s life and
this lust splits the 12 tribes of Israel.
Today with one wife as the standard, these words take on a
different meaning. Also, I think that was God’s original intention and am not
100% sure why He allowed it during this time. Either way, life’s lesion is know
the one you are “falling in love” with and then get married before having sex.
That is not the way it’s done in the word today, but God does things
differently than the world today.
Verse 5:15 sums this up:
Here’s what you should do to be
satisfied:
go home and drink in the pleasures of your
own cistern, your wife;
enjoy the sweet, fresh water that
has been there all along, flowing from your own well.
Life would be much simpler in this nation if every man would
do this. Granted he has to have a willing partner to return that love, but even
if not that does not justify drifting away from her. Imagine all the broken
homes working things out instead of just flushing it all away for selfish
desires. One must wonder how much better our country would be if this was the
case.
Verse 6:26 moves from one side to the other:
For you can buy a harlot with a
loaf of bread,
but sex with another man’s wife will cost you your
life.
This is the other side to adultery, and the hazards one must
be aware of. For some odd reason a woman can have sex with someone else’s
husband and that just is wrong, but a man has sex with another’s wife and it
means death. I think the reason this came to be is macho mentality. Women who
are wronged for the most part are hurt, men seek revenge. Either way take these
words to heart and don’t fool around outside YOUR own marriage!!
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