Proverbs chapter 7

vs 19

You would think this would be about her getting caught - but I mean, she's doing all this publicly on the street! So it's as much her just increasing the suggestiveness - well, out and out blatant proposal.

vs 20

I suppose the full purse indicates how long he intends to be away by how much he expects to spend on the trip.

vs 21

It's not even the looks, or certainly not only the looks. But she makes such open offers and such suggestive arguments that her point is clear. It's interesting, I don't know if we'd be so straight up about it if we were writing to our sons today.

vs 22

And the guy falls for it - not that it's a trick, so much, but a trap.

vs 23

And the point is that it is a deadly trap, and that things that stumble into traps generally do so because they don't realise it.

Note that he doesn't explain how it is deadly - he has already done that, and they should know.

vs 24

Because obviously this is deadly important.

vs 25

Note that although it's a trap, they are now aware of it and so it is their responsibility to not stumble into it.

vs 26

She's a man eater, as it were. Of course, it's not like she's a serial killer or something. The point is that she has ruined men to the point of death.

vs 27

And same again, although I love the idea of a highway to the grave. So the last verse is mostly about the number of people she has brought low, and this is more about how speedily her path leads there.

It will be nice to get to some more wholesome proverbs.