Proverbs 7:24

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteneth to the snare — and knoweth not that it is at the cost of his life.

25Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

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Cross References

Psalms 34:12(34-13) Who is the man that desireth life, and loveth days, that he may see good therein?

Proverbs 5:7Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 13:1A wise son is instructed of his father; but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

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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