(A)keep my commandments and live;
    keep my teaching as (B)the apple of your eye;
(C)bind them on your fingers;
    (D)write them on the tablet of your heart.
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
    and call insight your intimate friend,

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(A)Keep my commandments and live,
And my [a]teaching (B)as the [b]apple of your eye.
(C)Bind them on your fingers;
(D)Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your intimate friend,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:2 Or law
  2. Proverbs 7:2 Lit pupil

Keep my commands and live,(A)
and guard my instructions
as you would the pupil of your eye.(B)
Tie them to your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.(C)
Say to wisdom, ‘You are my sister,’(D)
and call understanding your relative.

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