Proverbs 7:24 (BSB)

Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 7:24

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 7:24-27: We have here the application of the foregoing story: "Hearken to me therefore, and not to such seducers (Pro 7:24); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy." 1. "Take good counsel when it is given you. Let not thy heart decline to her ways (Pro 7:25); never leave the paths of virtue, though strait and narrow, solitary and up-hill, for the way...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 7:24: Let not thine heart decline to her ways,.... Or turn not aside from the right way, the path of truth and holiness, to those of the whorish woman, that lead to ruin and destruction; do not so much as think of going out of the one into the other; let there not be the least wandering thought, affection, or disposition of the mind thereunto; stop...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 7:24: The inferential admonition is followed (Pro 7:26-27), by a more general allegation of the evils of this vice.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 7:24-25: Pro 7:24-25 With ועתּה, as at Pro 5:7, the author now brings his narrative to a close, adding the exhortation deduced from it: 24 And now, ye children, give ear unto me, And observe the words of my mouth! 25 Let not thine heart incline to her ways, And stray not in her paths.