a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them. I. Enjoy with satisfaction the comforts of lawful marriage, which was ordained for the prevention of uncleanness, and therefore ought to be made use of in time, lest it should not prove effectual for the cure of that which it might have prevented.
Commenting on Proverbs 5:15-23
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe,.... That is, the wife of youth; let her always appear to thee as amiable and lovely as these creatures are; or let her be loved by thee as these are by princes and great men (w), who used to keep them tame, keep them clean, wash, comb them, and adorn them, and play with them...
loving . . . roe--other figures for a wife from the well-known beauty of these animals. breasts--(Compare Sol 1:13; Eze 23:3, Eze 23:8). ravished--literally, "intoxicated," that is, fully satisfied.