Proverbs 6:25 (BSB)

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 6:25

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 6:20-35: Here is, I. A general exhortation faithfully to adhere to the word of God and to take it for our guide in all our actions. 1. We must look upon the word of God both as a light (Pro 6:23) and as a law, Pro 6:20, Pro 6:23.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 6:25: For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread,.... To be glad of one, and to beg for one, for the least morsel; it is expressive of the extreme poverty and want which harlots bring men to, who strip them of all their substance, and then send them going to get their bread as they can; thus the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 6:25: One of the cautions of this instruction, avoid alluring beauty. take--or, "ensnare." eyelids--By painting the lashes, women enhanced beauty.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 6:25: Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. (m) With her wanton looks and gesture.