heart. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for attention.
observe. delight in.
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23...
My son, give me (l) thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways. (l) Give yourself wholly to wisdom.
It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverb...
DISCOURSE: 806 THE DUTY OF GIVING THE HEART TO GOD Proverbs 23:26 . My Son, give me thy heart . THIS address, however it may be considered in s...
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. My son, give me thine heart - This is the speech of God to every human soul; give th...
My son, give me thine heart, &c.— The heart was esteemed by the ancients the seat of the affections: accordingly, Solomon may be understood a...
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. My son, give me thine heart - the center and regulator of the head, the hand...
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt.
My son, give me thine heart. — For that is the one gift alone worthy of acceptance which man can offer to God, and the only one which God will acce...
CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from i...
At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still...
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the g...
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 po...
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. Ver. 26. My son, give me thy heart. ] There is a strange strife, not of earthly,...
My son, give me thy heart Receive my counsels with thy whole heart; for the heart being esteemed by the ancients the seat of the affections, Solomo...
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For t...
Give me thine heart; receive my counsels with thy whole heart. Solomon speaking in God's name and cause, requires the heart to be given to him. Le...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 23:17 . Let not thine heart envy , etc. The verb translated envy refers to both objects in the verse, and is better tr...
Proverbs 23:26 I. The wise man here uses the word "heart" in the fullest sense. It includes the whole mind, the spirit, and the soul. These are wh...
Proverbs 23:1 . When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, put a knife to thy throat, if th...
My son, give Me thine heart. The heart a gift for God I. Love prompts this request of wisdom. 1. Only love seeks after love. We care not to...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 23:1-20 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to...
v. 26. My son, give Me thine heart, Wisdom herself here pleading with the young person to be devoted to her at all times, and let thine eyes obser...
2 Corinthians 5:14 ; 2 Corinthians 5:15 ; 2 Corinthians 8:5 ; 2 Peter 1:19 ; Deuteronomy 6:5 ; Ephesians 3:17 ; Hosea 14:9 ; Luke 14:26 ; Ma...
Give me — Solomon here speaks in God's name.
26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.