The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 7:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

My son, keep my words. The teacher enjoins his pupil, as in Proverbs 2:1, to observe the rules which he gives. Lay up, as a precious treasure (see on Proverbs 2:1 and Proverbs 2:7). The LXX. adds here a distich which is not in the Hebrew or in any other version, and is not germane to the context, however excellent in itself: "My son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong, and beside him feat no other."

With this we may compare Luke 12:5 and Isaiah 8:12, Isaiah 8:13.

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