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Proverbs 5

Prov. 5:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Lest thou shouldest ponder
palac (Hebrew #6424)
properly, to roll flat, i.e. prepare (a road); also to revolve, i.e. weigh (mentally)
KJV usage: make, ponder, weigh.
Pronounce: paw-las'
Origin: a primitive root
the path
'orach (Hebrew #734)
a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan
KJV usage: manner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-)way.
Pronounce: o'-rakh
Origin: from 732
of life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
, her ways
ma`gal (Hebrew #4570)
from the same as 5696; a track (literally or figuratively); also a rampart (as circular)
KJV usage: going, path, trench, way((-side)).
Pronounce: mah-gawl'
Origin: or feminine mapgalah {mah-gaw-law'}
are moveable
nuwa` (Hebrew #5128)
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
KJV usage: continually, fugitive, X make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).
Pronounce: noo'-ah
Origin: a primitive root
, that thou canst not know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
them.

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Ministry on This Verse

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ponder.
Prov. 4:26• 26Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered. (Prov. 4:26)
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Psa. 119:59• 59I have thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. (Psa. 119:59)
the path.
Prov. 11:19• 19As righteousness tendeth to life, so he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death. (Prov. 11:19)
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Psa. 16:11• 11Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore. (Psa. 16:11)
her.
Prov. 6:12‑13• 12A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;
 13he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; (Prov. 6:12‑13)
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Prov. 7:10‑21• 10And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
 11She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
 12now without, now in the broadways,--and she lieth in wait at every corner.
 13And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
 14I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
 15therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
 16I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
 17I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
 18Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
 19For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
 20he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
 21With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him. (Prov. 7:10‑21)
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2 Thess. 2:9‑10• 9whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
 10and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved. (2 Thess. 2:9‑10)
• So low had become the moral state of Israel, that even the daughters of the people of God had fallen into the degradation of the heathen, as is evident from the words already noticed in chapter 2:17. Though called a “stranger” or “foreigner,” she had “forsaken the guide of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of her God.” Hence she is viewed as an outsider, having no place in the congregation of the Lord. (“Proverbs Five” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Lest she should ponder the path of life, her waysh wander, she knoweth not whitheri.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "paths." see Note i, ch. 2.9.
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Or "Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are changeable. thou canst not know [them]."