Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
Here is, I. An account of four things that are unsearchable, too wonderful to be fully known. And here, 1. The first three are natural things, and are only designed as comparisons for the illustration of the last. We cannot trace, (1.) An eagle in the air.
Commenting on Proverbs 30:18-23
Such is the way of an adulterous woman,.... It is equally unknown as the way of a man with a maid; it is difficult to detect her, she takes so much care and caution, and uses so many artful methods to conceal her wickedness from her husband; though she lives in adultery, it is in a most private manner, and carried on so secretly and...
she eateth . . . mouth--that is, she hides the evidences of her shame and professes innocence.