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The general counsel of Pro 1:9 is here followed by a more special warning:
My son, if sinners entice thee
Consent thou not.
The בְּנִי
(Note: The accent Pazer over the בְּנִי has the force of Athnach.)
(my son) is emphatically repeated. The intensive from חַטָּאִים (signifies men to whom sin has become a habit, thus vicious, wicked. פִּתָּה (Pi. of פָּתָה, to open) is not denom., to make or wish to make a פְּתִי; the meaning, to entice (harmonizing with πείθειν), פִּתָּה obtains from the root-meaning of the Kal, for it is related to it as pandere (januam) to patere: to open, to make accessible, susceptible, namely to persuasion. The warning 10b is as brief as possible a call of alarm back from the abyss. In the form תֹּבֵא (from אָבָה, to agree to, to be willing, see Wetstein in Job, p. 349) the preformative א is wanting, as in תֹּמְרוּ, 2Sa 19:14, cf. Psa 139:20, Ges. §68, 2, and instead of תֹּבֶה (= תּאֹבֶה, 1Ki 20:8) is vocalized not תֹּבֶא (cf. Pro 11:25), but after the Aram. תֹּבֵא (cf. יִגְלֵי); see Gen 26:29, and Comment. on Isaiah, p. 648; Gesen. §75, 17.