Proverbs 5:7
Hear me now therefore, O all of you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
In Context
6Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
8Remove your way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Cross References
Proverbs 3:21My son, let not them depart from yours eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Proverbs 4:21Let them not depart from yours eyes; keep them in the midst of yours heart.
Proverbs 8:32Now therefore hearken unto me, O all of you children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Hebrews 12:25See that all of you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7… Read the whole commentary →