Proverbs 4:1
Hear, you sons, the instruction of a father, || And give attention to know understanding.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2For I have given to you good learning, do not forsake my law.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Come, children, listen to me, || I teach you the fear of YHWH.
Proverbs 1:8Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, || And do not leave the law of your mother,
Proverbs 2:3For if you call for intelligence, || [And] give forth your voice for intelligence,
Proverbs 6:20Keep, my son, the command of your father, || And do not leave the law of your mother.
Proverbs 8:32And now, you sons, listen to me, || Indeed, blessed are they who keep my ways.
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel and receive instruction, || So that you are wise in your 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 →