Proverbs 23:26 (BSB)

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:26

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:19-28: Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go. Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: "Here, my son, and be wise, Pro 23:19.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:26: My son, give me thine heart,.... These words are not the words of Solomon to his son, for a greater than Solomon is here; besides, the claim and possession of the heart do not belong to a creature, but to God; but they are the words of Wisdom, or Christ, to everyone of his sons, the children the Father has given him in covenant; who...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:26: A solemn warning against whoredom and drunkenness (Hos 4:11). give me--This is the address of that divine wisdom so often presented (Pro 8:1; Pro 9:3, &c.). heart--confidence. observe--keep. my ways--such as I teach you (Pro 3:17; Pro 9:6).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 23:26: My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways. (l) Give yourself wholly to wisdom.