10 And it cometh to pass at her speaking unto Joseph day `by' day, that he hath not hearkened unto her, to lie near her, to be with her;
`Who `is' simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart -- she said to him,
Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;
flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
For a harlot `is' a deep ditch, And a strange woman `is' a strait pit.
and he refuseth, and saith unto his lord's wife, `Lo, my lord hath not known what `is' with me in the house, and all that he hath he hath given into my hand;
And she hath sat at the opening of her house, On a throne -- the high places of the city,
To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids. For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil `is' her mouth,
To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
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Commentary on Genesis 39 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 39
At this chapter we return to the story of Joseph. We have him here,
Gen 39:1-6
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Gen 39:7-12
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Gen 39:13-18
Joseph's mistress, having tried in vain to make him a criminal, now endeavours to represent him as one; so to be revenged on him for his virtue. Now was her love turned into the utmost rage and malice, and she pretends she cannot endure the sight of him whom awhile ago she could not endure out of her sight. Chaste and holy love will continue, though slighted; but sinful love, like Amnon's to Tamar, is easily changed into sinful hatred.
Gen 39:19-23
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