Proverbs 5:18 Commentary and Bible Study

Let your tender bride be the one who captivates you. Having described the Christian life, why be captivated by an adulteress? Put yourself in the position of the man in ancient times. His farm is doing well, his homestead is prospering, his trade, whatever he does, is appreciated, and he is becoming more comfortably off, and his family is rejoicing and blessed, and there is security. And then he succumbs to the adulteress, and oh, he smashes up his marriage, and he breaks the heart of his tender bride, and he alienates himself from his family, and his whole situation becomes impoverished. What does he get? An adulteress, one who does this to one person after another, one who is just trying to drain him of his resources, and then dump him in the end. Think man, what are you going to get, what is coming, what will happen to you?And that is what Solomon says here in verse 20: ‘Why my son? Why give away your soul and your life to this world, why? What will it do for you long term, where will it get you?’ The earnest pleading and reasonings of Solomon! And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman. Why be captivated, why be taken in by the promises of this world? Be shrewd, see through all its claims and its ideas, when it tells you it can make you happy, when it tells you it is going to satisfy you and fulfil you, and you can live without the forgiveness of God, without the salvation of God, without the new life which comes from Christ.