Proverbs 7
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Chapter 7
Chapter Overview:
An exhortation to cleave to wisdom, as a preservative from strange women, ver. 1 - 5.
The snares they lay for unwary young men, ver. 6 - 23.
A serious caution against coming near them, ver. 24 - 37.
Verses:
| 7:2 | Live - Thou shalt live. Eye - With all possible care and diligence. |
| 7:3 | Bind them - As a ring which is continually in a man's eye. |
| 7:4 | And call - Acquaint and delight thyself with her. |
| 7:8 | Passing - Idle and careless, near the corner of the street in which her house stood. |
| 7:12 | Without - Without the door of her house. Corner - Of the streets, where she might either conceal or discover herself, as she saw fit. |
| 7:14 | Offerings - I have paid my peace - offerings which I had vowed.Whereby she signifies, that she had plentiful provisions at her house for his entertainment. For the peace - offerings were to be of the best flesh, Leviticus 22:21 , and a considerable part of these offerings fell to the offerer's share. |
| 7:20 | Hath taken - Which is an evidence that he designs to stay a considerable time. At the day - So that we need not fear any surprise. |
| 7:22 | As an ox - Going to it securely, as if it were going to a good pasture. |
| 7:23 | His liver - His vital parts, 'till his life be lost. |