2 That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.
You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, Therefore God has blessed you forever.
My mouth will tell about your righteousness, And of your salvation all day, Though I don't know its full measure.
The lips of the righteous feed many, But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, But the mouth of fools gush out folly.
The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, And adds learning to his lips.
Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Hosts.
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Commentary on Proverbs 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of ch. 2. To write the same things, in other words, ought not to be grievous, for it is safe, Phil. 3:1. Here is,
And all little enough to arm young people against those fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
Pro 5:1-14
Here we have,
Pro 5:15-23
Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them.