Proverbs 7:2
Observe my commandments, and live: and my teaching as the apple of thy eyes.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
In Context
1My son, observe my sayings, and my commandments must thou treasure up with thee.
3Bind them around thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste of the howling of the wilderness; he encircled him, he watched him, he guarded him as the apple of his eye.
Psalms 119:144Righteous are thy testimonies for everlasting: give me understanding, that I may live.
Proverbs 4:13Lay fast hold of correction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Jeremiah 38:20But Jeremiah said, They will not give [thee] up. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the Lord, in that which I speak unto thee; so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:2-6
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.… Read the whole commentary →