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Selected Verse: Proverbs 7:1 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 7:1 |
King James |
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The subject continued, by a delineation of the arts of strange women, as a caution to the unwary. (Pro. 7:1-27)
Similar calls (Pro 3:1-3; Pro 4:10, &c.). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The harlot adulteress of an Eastern city is contrasted with the true feminine ideal of the Wisdom who is to be the "sister" and "kinswoman" Pro 7:4 of the young man as he goes on his way through life. See Prov. 8 in the introduction. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The introduction first counsels in general to a true appreciation of these well-considered life-rules of wisdom.
1 My son, keep my words,
And treasure up my commandments with thee.
2 Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live;
And my instruction as the apple of thine eye.
3 Wind them about thy fingers,
Write them on the tablet of thy heart.
The lxx has after Pro 7:1 another distich; but it here disturbs the connection. Regarding צפן, vid., at Pro 2:1; אתּך refers, as there, to the sphere of one's own character, and that subjectively. Regarding the imper. וחיה, which must here be translated according to its sense as a conclusion, because it comes in between the objects governed by שׁמר, vid., at Pro 4:4. There וחיה is punctuated with Silluk; here, according to Kimchi (Michlol 125a), with Segol-Athnach, וחיה, as in the Cod. Erfurt. 2 and 3, and in the editions of Athias and Clodius, so that the word belongs to the class פתחין באתנח (with short instead of long vowel by the pausal accent): no reason for this is to be perceived, especially as (Pro 4:4) the Tsere (ê from aj) which is characteristic of the imper. remains unchanged. Regarding אישׁון העין, Arab. insân el-'ain, the little man of the eye, i.e., the apple of the eye, named from the miniature portrait of him who looks into it being reflected from it, vid., at Psa 17:8; the ending ôn is here diminutive, like Syr. achuno, little brother, beruno, little son, and the like. On Pro 7:3, vid., at Pro 6:21; Pro 3:3. The תפילין שׁל יד
(Note: תפילין, prayer-fillets, phylacteries.)
were wound seven times round the left arm and seven times round the middle finger. The writing on the table of the heart may be regarded as referring to Deu 6:9 (the Mezuzoth).
(Note: = the door-posts, afterwards used by the Jews to denote the passages of Scripture written on the door-posts.) |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| My son, keep my words - See Pro 2:1. |
10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;