Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that you may know prudence.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 34:11Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.
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, keep 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 →