Proverbs 7:24

Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

In Context

23Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.

25Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.

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Cross References

Psalms 34:12They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.

Proverbs 5:7Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 13:1A wise son heareth the doctrine of his father: but he that is a scorner, heareth not when he is reproved.

Galatians 4:19My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24

The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →

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