Proverbs 7:17 (BSB)
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 7:17
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-23: Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 7:17: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning,.... Taking him by the hand, and pulling him along, she says, "come"; let us not stand here in the streets, but let us go within, and after supper to bed; and there enjoy ourselves, till "inebriated" with love, as the word (w) signifies: so the poet (x) speaks of "ebrios ocellos", "eyes drunk", that...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 7:16-18: Pro 7:16-18 Thus she found him, and described to him the enjoyment which awaited him in eating and drinking, then in the pleasures of love. 16 “My bed have I spread with cushions, Variegated coverlets, Egyptian linen; 17 I have sprinkled my couch With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.