Young Man Passes the Woman's Doorway at DuskBible World
7:11Proverbs 7:11
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
The verse portrays the unchaste woman as loud, stubborn and restless, unwilling to remain at home and ranging abroad for prey, with temptation still lying in wait at every corner and drawing its victims under cover of darkness toward her house. It belongs to the vivid, truthful account in Proverbs 7 of the strange woman and the young man void of understanding that goes straight to the mark in setting forth vice and its results. That chapter describes the character of a class of women rather than one particular woman.
It belongs to the call in the first seven chapters to choose wisdom as the path of life and not reject instruction to follow a flatterer into ruin, and it is included in the assigned reading of Proverbs 5-12. It warns of the downward path of sexual immorality that leads to a horrible fate and death. Breaking the laws of spiritual life brings spiritual disease and death, fatal to health of soul and body, with momentary pleasure followed by long bitter remorse and a wasted life for those who refuse reproof. The Bible speaks thus plainly about sexual matters on purpose, to make such sins appear exceeding sinful.
It is deep instruction that must be read slowly and thought over. Though not well suited to reading in a mixed assembly of men and women, its warning against condemned sin ought to take hold on the heart of both men and women. It warns inexperienced young men to take warning in time, to turn back, to escape the grievous snares about their feet and to keep their hearts from declining to her ways, because temptation draws them through sexual enticement from virtue.
Its warning about sexual danger applies to young women sent into city life without preparation for the moral dangers around them, where a misstep may lead to prostitution. The picture of enticement also shows how greed can enable temptation, as in a landlord who rents premises for such purposes. The image of the harlot whose way leads to death is applied to morality enforced through political power, which is deceptive and associated with hidden violence and social division.
The verse portrays the unchaste woman as loud, stubborn and restless, unwilling to remain at home and ranging abroad for prey, with temptation still lying in wait at every corner and drawing its victims under cover of darkness toward her house. It belongs to the vivid, truthful account in Proverbs 7 of the strange woman and the young man void of understanding that goes straight to the mark in setting forth vice and its results. That chapter describes the character of a class of women rather than one particular woman.
It belongs to the call in the first seven chapters to choose wisdom as the path of life and not reject instruction to follow a flatterer into ruin, and it is included in the assigned reading of Proverbs 5-12. It warns of the downward path of sexual immorality that leads to a horrible fate and death. Breaking the laws of spiritual life brings spiritual disease and death, fatal to health of soul and body, with momentary pleasure followed by long bitter remorse and a wasted life for those who refuse reproof. The Bible speaks thus plainly about sexual matters on purpose, to make such sins appear exceeding sinful.
It is deep instruction that must be read slowly and thought over. Though not well suited to reading in a mixed assembly of men and women, its warning against condemned sin ought to take hold on the heart of both men and women. It warns inexperienced young men to take warning in time, to turn back, to escape the grievous snares about their feet and to keep their hearts from declining to her ways, because temptation draws them through sexual enticement from virtue.
Its warning about sexual danger applies to young women sent into city life without preparation for the moral dangers around them, where a misstep may lead to prostitution. The picture of enticement also shows how greed can enable temptation, as in a landlord who rents premises for such purposes. The image of the harlot whose way leads to death is applied to morality enforced through political power, which is deceptive and associated with hidden violence and social division.