Proverbs 5:14

“I was almost in all evil, etc.] Scarce a sin but he was guilty of; contempt of private and public instructions, the instructions of parents and ministers of the Gospel, and following lewd women, commonly lead to the commission of all other sins, even the most atrocious. Some understand this, not of the evil of sin, but of the evil of punishment; and that the sense is, that there is scarce any calamity, distress, or misery, that a man can be in, but his profaneness and lewdness had brought him into; and he was just upon the brink of hell itself: and so Jarchi paraphrases it, “there was but a step between me and hell.” Aben Ezra observes, that the past is put for the future, “I shall be”; and…”

“evil--for affliction, as in Gen 19:20; Gen 49:15.”

“The conscience-stricken sinner had been “almost” given up to every form of evil in the sight of the whole assembly of fellow-townsmen; “almost,” therefore, condemned to the death which that assembly might inflict Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22. The public scandal of the sin is brought in as its last aggravating feature. return to 'Top of Page'”

“A moment - In how little a time am I now come into remediless misery! Assembly - And that in the congregation of Israel, where I was taught better things. Proverbs 5:15”

“Pro 13:20; Num 25:1-6; Hos 4:11-14; Co1 10:6-8; Pe2 2:10-18; Jde 1:7-13 Proverbs 5:15”