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Sin Creates Its Own Prison
Commentators explain that this verse describes sin as a self-entrapping force. Like twisting individual threads into a strong rope over time, repeated sinful acts create "cords" that bind a person. Scholars like Ellicott and Gill note that the sinner becomes so entangled that they cannot get free, even if they desire to.
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Charles Ellicott
On Proverbs 5:22–23
19th Century
Bishop
His own iniquities ...—The final scene in the life of the profligate is here described. He has sinned so long that he is “tied and…
John Gill
On Proverbs 5:22
17th Century
Pastor
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself As in a snare or net, as Gersom observes; in which the adulterer is so e…
Matthew Henry
On Proverbs 5:15–23
17th Century
Minister
Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, unless we attend to God's word, …