Proverbs 7:24
Now then, my son, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
In Context
23and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for his life.
25Let not your heart turn aside to her ways + 7:25 Alex. + 'and stray not in her paths.' :
Cross References
Psalms 34:12They rewarded me evil for good, and bereavement to my soul. 1
Proverbs 5:7Now then, my son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect.
Proverbs 13:1A wise son is obedient to his father: but a disobedient son will be destroyed.
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 →