Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version My son, pay attention to my wisdom, turn your ear to my words of insight, New Living Translation My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my wise counsel. English Standard Version My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, Berean Study Bible My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight, King James Bible My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: New King James Version My son, pay attention to my wisdom; Lend your ear to my understanding, New American Standard Bible My son, pay attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding, NASB 1995 My son, give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding; NASB 1977 My son, give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding; Amplified Bible My son, be attentive to my wisdom [godly wisdom learned by costly experience], Incline your ear to my understanding; Christian Standard Bible My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen closely to my understanding Holman Christian Standard Bible My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen closely to my understanding American Standard Version My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding: Aramaic Bible in Plain English My son, give ear to my wisdom and incline your ear to my sayings Brenton Septuagint Translation My son, attend to my wisdom, and apply thine ear to my words; Contemporary English Version My son, if you listen closely to my wisdom and good sense, Douay-Rheims Bible My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence. English Revised Version My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding: Good News Translation My child, pay attention and listen to my wisdom and insight. GOD'S WORD® Translation My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Open your ears to my understanding International Standard Version My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and listen closely to my insight, JPS Tanakh 1917 My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding; Literal Standard Version My son! Give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding, NET Bible My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding, New Heart English Bible My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: World English Bible My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: Young's Literal Translation My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, Additional Translations ... Context Avoiding Immorality1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight, 2that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.… Cross References Proverbs 4:20 My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Proverbs 22:17 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise--apply your mind to my knowledge-- Treasury of Scripture My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding: bow Proverbs 22:17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. James 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Verses 1-23. - 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced at before in Proverbs 2:15-19, and which he again treats of in the latter part of the sixth and in the whole of the seventh chapters. This constant recurrence to the same subject, repulsive on account of its associations, shows, however, the importance which it had in the teacher's estimation as a ground of warning, and that he ranked it among the foremost of the temptations and sins which called the young off from the pursuit of Wisdom, and so led them astray from "the fear of the Lord." The vividness with which the ruin, bodily and moral, ensuing with absolute certainty on a life of vice, is described is a sufficient proof in itself that the subject before us is not brought forward from or for voluptuous motives, but for the purpose of conveying an impressive warning. Some commentators, e.g. Delitzsch, include the first six verses in the previous discourse; but the unity of the subject requires a different treatment. Zockler's reason against this arrangement, on the ground that the previous discourse was addressed to "tender youth," and thus to youth in a state of pupilage, while the one before us refers to more advanced age - to the married man - may be true, but is not the true ground for incorporating them in the present discourse. The unity of the subject requires that they should be taken with the central and didactic part of the discourse, as being in a sense introductory to it. The discourse divides itself into three sections. (1) The earnest appeal to attention because of the counter-attraction in the blandishments of the harlot, which, however, in the end, are bitter as wormwood and sharp as a two-edged sword (vers. 1-6). (2) The main or didactic section (vers. 7-20), embracing (a) warnings against adulterous intercourse with "the strange woman" (vers. 7-14); . . . Hebrew My son,בְּ֭נִי (bə·nî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1121: A son pay attention הַקְשִׁ֑יבָה (haq·šî·ḇāh) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 7181: To prick up the ears, hearken to my wisdom; לְחָכְמָתִ֣י (lə·ḥā·ḵə·mā·ṯî) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 2451: Wisdom incline הַט־ (haṭ-) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend your ear אָזְנֶֽךָ׃ (’ā·zə·ne·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 241: Broadness, the ear to my understanding, לִ֝תְבוּנָתִ֗י (liṯ·ḇū·nā·ṯî) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 8394: Intelligence, an argument, caprice Jump to Previous Attend Attention Attentive Bow Ear Incline Insight Pay Teaching Turn Turned Understanding Wisdom WordsJump to Next Attend Attention Attentive Bow Ear Incline Insight Pay Teaching Turn Turned Understanding Wisdom WordsLinks Proverbs 5:1 NIVProverbs 5:1 NLT Proverbs 5:1 ESV Proverbs 5:1 NASB Proverbs 5:1 KJV Proverbs 5:1 BibleApps.com Proverbs 5:1 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 5:1 Chinese Bible Proverbs 5:1 French Bible Proverbs 5:1 Clyx Quotations OT Poetry: Proverbs 5:1 My son pay attention to my wisdom (Prov. Pro Pr) |
   
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