Proverbs 7:1

Warning Against the Strange Woman

1 My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.

Proverbs 7:1 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words
Doctrines and instructions; which, as a father to a son, or a master to his scholars, he had delivered; these he would have him observe and attend to; and lay up my commandments with thee:
as a treasure in his heart, to be brought out upon occasion; to be kept as valuable, and made use of as an antidote against and a preservative from sinning; see ( Psalms 119:11 ) . The Septuagint and Arabic versions add, what is not in the Hebrew text,

``son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong;''

the Arabic adds,

``and he shall strengthen thee; and fear none besides him.''

Proverbs 7:1 In-Context

1 My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.

2 Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}.

3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, "you are my sister," and you shall call insight, "{intimate friend}."

5 [In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.