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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 established. (Prov. 4:26)
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Psa. 119:59• 59I 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 pursueth it to his own death. (Prov. 11:19)
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Psa. 16:11• 11Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. (Psa. 16:11)
her.
Prov. 6:12‑13• 12A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward 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 with the attire of an harlot, and subtile of heart.
 11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
 12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
 13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
 14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
 15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
 16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
 17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
 18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
 19For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
 20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
 21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. (Prov. 7:10‑21)
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2 Thess. 2:9‑10• 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not 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]."