Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Parallel translations
- WEB She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
- BSB She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
- NKJV Lest you ponder her path of life— Her ways are unstable; You do not know them.
- NASB She does not ponder the path of life; Her ways are unstable, she does not know it.
- NLT For she cares nothing about the path to life. She staggers down a crooked trail and doesn’t realize it.
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Quick answer
She gives no thought to the path of life; her ways wander and she does not know it. Sin is marked by a careless, aimless straying from life.
Overview
The seductress neither considers nor finds the way of life; her paths are unstable and she is oblivious to her own wandering. This blindness is itself part of sin's danger, for those caught in it lose the very ability to perceive their ruin. It is a sober picture of the lostness from which the Good Shepherd seeks and saves (Luke 19:10).
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Cross-references · 9
- Prov 4:26Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
- Prov 5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
- Ps 16:11Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
- Ps 119:59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
- Prov 6:12–13A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
- Prov 30:20Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
- Prov 7:10–21And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
- Prov 11:19As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
- 2 Th 2:9–10Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
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