Wisdom & Insight: Beloved Brothers and Sisters — Proverbs 7 #2

Another Warning about Immoral Women

Proverbs 7:1-5 New Living Translation (NLT)

7 Follow my advice, my son;
    always treasure my commands.
² Obey my commands and live!
    Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes.^[a]
3 Tie them on your fingers as a reminder.
    Write them deep within your heart.

⁴ Love wisdom like a sister;
    make insight a beloved member of your family.
⁵ Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman,
    from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.

⁵ Father to the fatherless, defender of widows—

    this is God, whose dwelling is holy.

⁶ God places the lonely in families;

Psalm 68:5-6

references & reflections

[a] Hebrew as the pupil of your eye. (Apple of eye, window to soul)
[1] https://www.identitycrisisundone.org/proverbs—wisdom-at-its-finest/proverbs-71-5
[2] https://taipobiblemarathon.wordpress.com/tag/proverbs/page/3/