Proverbs 7
In this chapter, we encounter a young man who is in need of the wisdom of others. After reading this dramatic account concerning the adulteress we come across a very helpful summary of the chapter in vv. 24-27. Regarding these closing thoughts, the O.T. commentator Derek Kidner writes;
After watching the young man, we are made to see ourselves as conceivably filling the same role. The defense is threefold. first, guard your heart (25); you are in danger as soon as your thoughts wander in this fatal direction. Second, keep away, literally as well as in mind (25b). Third, look past her, to the causalities and the chambers of death (26, 27). (Proverbs, TOTC, p. 74)
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