Proverbs 7:2 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 7:2

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

KJV

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ASV

Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.

WEB

Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

YLT

Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

DBT

Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Deuteronomy 11:18
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Leviticus 18:5
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 4:4
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
1 John 2:3–4
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

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8 ) if we be in like manner tender of his law and afraid of the least violation of it. Those who reproach strict and circumspect walking, as needless preciseness, consider not that the law is to be kept as the apple of the eye, for indeed it is the apple of our eye; the law is light; the law in the heart is the eye of the soul.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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