1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
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1 My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:
1 My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding;
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:
1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
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Commentary on Proverbs 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of ch. 2. To write the same things, in other words, ought not to be grievous, for it is safe, Phil. 3:1. Here is,
And all little enough to arm young people against those fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
Pro 5:1-14
Here we have,
Pro 5:15-23
Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them.