Proverbs 7:24

And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its life.

25Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

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Cross References

Psalms 34:12Who [is] the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?

Proverbs 5:7And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

Proverbs 13:1A wise son — the instruction of a father, And a scorner — he hath not heard rebuke.

Galatians 4:19my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

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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