17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Other Translations of Proverbs 2:17

New International Version

17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.Or "covenant of her God"

English Standard Version

17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

The Message

17 Who's faithless to the husband she married years ago, never gave a second thought to her promises before God.

New King James Version

17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God.

New Living Translation

17 She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 2:17

Commentary on Proverbs 2:10-22

(Read Proverbs 2:10-22)

If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in such ways! They take pleasure in sin; both in committing it, and in seeing others commit it. Every wise man will shun such company. True wisdom will also preserve from those who lead to fleshly lusts, which defile the body, that living temple, and war against the soul. These are evils which excite the sorrow of every serious mind, and cause every reflecting parent to look upon his children with anxiety, lest they should be entangled in such fatal snares. Let the sufferings of others be our warnings. Our Lord Jesus deters from sinful pleasures, by the everlasting torments which follow them. It is very rare that any who are caught in this snare of the devil, recover themselves; so much is the heart hardened, and the mind blinded, by the deceitfulness of this sin. Many think that this caution, besides the literal sense, is to be understood as a caution against idolatry, and subjecting the soul to the body, by seeking any forbidden object. The righteous must leave the earth as well as the wicked; but the earth is a very different thing to them. To the wicked it is all the heaven they ever shall have; to the righteous it is the place of preparation for heaven. And is it all one to us, whether we share with the wicked in the miseries of their latter end, or share those everlasting joys that shall crown believers?

4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

Other Translations of Jeremiah 3:4

New International Version

4 Have you not just called to me: 'My Father, my friend from my youth,

English Standard Version

4 Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, you are the friend of my youth--

The Message

4 Then you have the nerve to call out, 'My father! You took care of me when I was a child. Why not now?

New King James Version

4 Will you not from this time cry to Me, 'My father, You are the guide of my youth?

New Living Translation

4 Yet you say to me, 'Father, you have been my guide since my youth.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 3:4

Commentary on Jeremiah 3:1-5

(Read Jeremiah 3:1-5)

In repentance, it is good to think upon the sins of which we have been guilty, and the places and companies where they have been committed. How gently the Lord had corrected them! In receiving penitents, he is God, and not man. Whatever thou hast said or done hitherto, wilt thou not from this time apply to me? Will not this grace of God overcome thee? Now pardon is proclaimed, wilt thou not take the benefit? They will hope to find in him the tender compassions of a Father towards a returning prodigal. They will come to him as the Guide of their youth: youth needs a guide. Repenting sinners may encourage themselves that God will not keep his anger to the end. All God's mercies, in every age, suggest encouragement; and what can be so desirable for the young, as to have the Lord for their Father, and the Guide of their youth? Let parents daily direct their children earnestly to seek this blessing.