Proverbs 7:24

My son, listen to what I say; pay careful attention to my words.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23where it will remain/stay until someone shoots an arrow into its liver and kills it. He was like a bird that flew into a trap. He did not know that ◄it would cost him his life/he would die as a result►.

25Do not allow anything to arouse/persuade you to go with an immoral woman like that. Do not go where she goes.

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Cross References

Psalms 34:12If [RHQ] any of you wants to enjoy life and have a good long life,

Proverbs 5:7So now, my sons, listen to me. ◄Never turn aside from/always remember► [LIT] what I am about to tell you.

Proverbs 13:1Children who are wise ◄pay attention/heed it► when their parents discipline/correct them; but foolish children do not pay attention when someone rebukes them for their bad behavior.

Galatians 4:19You who are like my children, once again I am very worried/concerned about you [MET], and I will continue to be worried/concerned until Christ’s nature becomes developed in you completely and wholeheartedly [MET] as a child becomes developed in his mother’s womb.

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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