Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the correction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2For good information do I give you: my teaching must ye not forsake.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11(34:12) Come, ye children, hearken unto me: the fear of the Lord will I teach you.
Proverbs 1:8Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and cast not off the teaching of thy mother;
Proverbs 2:3For if thou wilt call after intelligence; if after understanding thou wilt lift up thy voice;
Proverbs 6:20Keep, O my son, the commandment of thy father, and reject not the teaching of thy mother:
Proverbs 8:32And now, O children [of men], hearken unto me! for happy those that observe my ways.
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel, and accept correction, in order that thou mayest 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 →