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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,{HR}And be all thy ways well-ordered. (Prov. 4:26)
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Psa. 119:59• 59I have thought on my ways,{HR}And turned my feet unto thy testimonies. (Psa. 119:59)
the path.
Prov. 11:19• 19As righteousness [tendeth] to life,{HR}So to death he that pursueth evil. (Prov. 11:19)
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Psa. 16:11• 11Thou wilt show me the path of life,{HR}Fullness of joys in thy presence,{HR}Pleasures at thy right hand forever. (Psa. 16:11)
her.
Prov. 6:12‑13• 12A man of Belial, a wicked person,{HR}Walketh with a perverse mouth.
 13He winketh with his eyes;{HR}He speaketh with his feet;{HR}He teacheth with his fingers. (Prov. 6:12‑13)
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Prov. 7:10‑21• 10And, behold, there met him a woman{HR}[In] the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
 11She [is] clamorous and ungovernable;{HR}Her feet abide not in her house;
 12Now [she is] in the streets,{HR}Now in the broadways,{HR}And lieth in wait at every corner.
 13And she caught him and kissed him;{HR}With an impudent face she said to him,
 14I have peace-offerings;{HR}This day have I paid my vows.
 15Therefore came I forth to meet thee,{HR}Diligently to seek thy face;{HR}And I have found thee.
 16My bed I have decked with tapestry coverings,{HR}With variegated cloths of yarn from Egypt.
 17I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
 18Come, let us revel in love until the morning;{HR}Let us delight ourselves with loves.
 19For the husband [is] not at home{HR}And he is gone a long journey;
 20He hath taken the money-bag with him;{HR}He will come home at the day of full moon.
 21With her much fair speech she beguiled him;{HR}With the flattery 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 for those 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]."

W. Kelly Translation

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Lest she should ponder the path of life,{HR}Her ways are unstable, she knoweth [it] not.