Proverbs 7:3
And bind them on your fingers, and write them on the table of your heart.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
In Context
2keep my commandments, and you shall live; and keep my words as the pupils of your eyes.
4Say that wisdom is your sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for yourself;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8And you shall fasten them for a sign upon your hand, and it shall be immoveable before your eyes.
Proverbs 3:3Let not mercy and truth forsake you; but bind them about your neck:
Proverbs 6:21but bind them upon your soul continually, and hang them as a chain about your neck.
Isaiah 59:21And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and for ever.
Jeremiah 31:33Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab: and though there was wine in your presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.
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 →