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Proverbs 7 Bible study: Keep my words and live
In Hebrew the apple of your eye (7:2) and the middle of the night (7:9) are one word, ishon. And the woman is "in the streets" and "in the squares" (7:12), in Hebrew the very words of "Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares" (1:20): two voices, in the same places.
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“Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.”
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“In Proverbs 7:6-23, the young man speaks no words.”
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What's really going on
Keep the words, and be kept
The chapter opens with one voice speaking to "My son" (7:1), and its first verb is keep: "My son, keep my words" (7:1), and "Keep my commandments and live!" (7:2). Then the words are to be kept close: "Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye" (7:2), and "Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart" (7:3). Then wisdom is made family: "Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative" (7:4). And the reason comes with the same verb: "that they may keep you from the strange woman" (7:5). In Hebrew all three keeps are shamar (tap keep). The son keeps the words, and wisdom and understanding keep him.
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The Hebrew word behind it
לֵבlevsay LEV
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "inner man, mind, will, heart". Strong's: "the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect". The chapter has it four times in Hebrew, and the WEB gives it as heart twice: "Write them on the tablet of your heart" (7:3), and "Don’t let your heart turn to her ways" (7:25). In between, it stands in the Hebrew of void of understanding (7:7) and of with crafty intent (7:10). The Hebrew of void of understanding comes again in 6:32 and 9:16, and Keep your heart in 4:23 has lev too. Proverbs has lev 93 times in Hebrew.
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Proverbs 7 Bible study questions
- 1The words are to be kept "as the apple of your eye" (7:2) and written "on the tablet of your heart" (7:3). What helps you keep words you've learned close enough that they're there when you need them?
- 2The young man was walking "near her corner" (7:8) "in the twilight" (7:9), before anything else happened. Why do you think the chapter spends so long on where he walked? What does it look like to choose your road early?
- 3"Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”" (7:4). What would it mean in your week to treat wisdom as family, someone close, rather than a stranger?
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