Proverbs 5:6
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Proverbs 5:6 in other translations
| BSB | She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable. |
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| WEB | She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it. |
| ASV | So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, and she knoweth it not. |
| YLT | The path of life--lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths--thou knowest not. |
| DARBY | Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not whither. |
| BBE | She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge. |
| Webster | Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them. |
What does Proverbs 5:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 5:1-14
Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand idolatry, false doctrine, which tends to lead astray men's minds and manners; but the direct view is to warn against seventh-commandment sins. Often these have been, and still are, Satan's method of drawing men from the worship of God into false religion. Consider how fatal the consequences…
Proverbs 5:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 5:6
- Proverbs 4:26
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
- Psalms 16:11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
- Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
- Proverbs 30:20
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
- Psalms 119:59
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
- Proverbs 6:12-13
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
- Proverbs 7:10-21
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, …
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
- Proverbs 11:19
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
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Context
- Proverbs 5:5
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
- Proverbs 5:6
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
- Proverbs 5:7
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Sus caminos son instables; no los conocerás, si no considerares el camino de vida. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | de sorte qu’elle ne pèse pas le sentier de la vie; ses voies sont errantes: elle n’a pas de connaissance. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Damit sie nicht den Weg des Lebens einschlage, schweifen ihre Bahnen, ohne daß sie es weiß. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Per semitam vitæ non ambulant; vagi sunt gressus ejus et investigabiles. |