Proverbs 7:3 (BSB)

Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 7:3

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 7:1-5: These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, Pro 6:20, etc., and ending (Pro 7:5) as that did (Pro 6:24), To keep thee from the strange woman; that is it he aims at; only there he had said, Keep thy father's commandment, here (which comes all to one), Keep my commandments, for he speaks to us as unto sons.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 7:3: Bind them upon thy fingers,.... Let the above words and doctrines be as ready and familiar as if they were at the fingers' ends; or let them be always fresh in memory, as a piece of thread is tied about the fingers, to put in mind of anything to be done; or let them be as rings upon the fingers, both memorial and ornamental: or...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 7:3: Bind . . . fingers--as inscriptions on rings.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 7:1-3: Pro 7:1-3 The introduction first counsels in general to a true appreciation of these well-considered life-rules of wisdom. 1 My son, keep my words, And treasure up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; And my instruction as the apple of thine eye. 3 Wind them about thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.