V A farther exhortation to wisdom, ver. 1, 2. A caution against whoredom, ver. 3-14. Remedies against it, ver. 15-23.

Verse 3. The lips - It concerns thee to get and to use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those temptations to which thou art exposed.

Verse 4. But - The effect of that to which she entices men, is destruction.

Verse 5. Feet - Her manner of life.

Verse 6. Lest - To prevent thy serious consideration. Moveable - She transforms herself into several shapes, and has a thousand arts to ensnare. Know - Thou canst not discover all her practice.

Verse 9. honour - Thy dignity and reputation, the strength of thy body and mind. Years - The flower of thine age. The cruel - To the harlot, who though she pretends love, yet in truth is one of the most cruel creatures in the world, wasting thy estate and body without pity, and damming thy soul for ever. 10. Strangers - Not only the strange women themselves, but others who are in league with them. labours - Wealth gotten by thy labours.

Verse 14. A moment - In how little a time am I now come into remediless misery! Assembly - And that in the congregation of Israel, where I was taught better things.

Verse 15. Drink - Content thyself with those delights which God alloweth thee in the sober use of the marriage-bed.

Verse 16. Fountains - Thy children proceeding from thy wife and from thyself. Fountains are here put for rivers flowing from them. Dispersed - They shall in due time appear abroad to thy comfort, and for the good of others.

Verse 18. Fountain - Thy wife. Blessed - With children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse among the Israelites.

Verse 19. Satisfy thee - At all convenient times: for that there may be excess in the marriage-bed is manifest. Ravished - Love her fervently. It is an hyperbolical expression.

Verse 22. Holden - He is in perfect bondage to his lusts, and is neither able nor wiling to set himself at liberty.