Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.
Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother :
Proverbs 2:3For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:
Proverbs 6:20My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Proverbs 8:32Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:1
When the things of God are to be taught precept must be upon precept, and line upon line, not only because the things themselves are of great worth and weight, but because men's minds, at the best, are unapt to admit them and commonly prejudiced against them; and therefore Solomon, in this chapter, with a great variety of expression and a pleasant powerful flood of divine eloquence, inculcates the same things that he had pressed upon us in the foregoing chapters. Here is, I. An earnest exhortation to the study of… Read the whole commentary →