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Proverbs 4:1
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Listen, sons, to a father’s discipline,
Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
My children, listen to your father's teaching; pay attention so you will understand.
Listen, children, to a father's instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.
Hear, O children, the instruction of a father, And pay attention [and be willing to learn] so that you may gain understanding and intelligent discernment.
Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father, And pay attention so that you may gain understanding,
Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.
Hear, O sons, the discipline of a father,And pay attention that you may know understanding,
Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father; pay attention and gain understanding.
My child, listen closely to my teachings and learn common sense.
Listen, children, to a father's instruction; pay attention, in order to gain insight;
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence;
HEAR, O my children, the instruction of a father, and give ear to knowledge and understanding.
My children, listen to what your father teaches you. Pay attention, and you will have understanding.
Children, listen to the instruction of a father, and be attentive in order to know insight.
Sons, hear the instruction of a father, pay attention to know understanding,
Heare (O ye children) the fatherly exortacio, & take good hede, that ye maye lerne wy?dome.
Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:
Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Heare, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know vnderstanding.
Heare O ye chyldren a fatherly instruction, & take good heede, that ye may learne vnderstanding.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding:
Sones, here ye the teching of the fadir; and perseiue ye, that ye kunne prudence.
Hear, [my] sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding;
My children, listen when your father corrects you. Pay attention and learn good judgment,
O sons, hear the teaching of a father. Listen so you may get understanding.
Listen, children, to a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;
Hear, ye sons, the correction of a father, and attend, that ye may know understanding.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that you may know prudence.
Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;
Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.
Listen, friends, to some fatherly advice; sit up and take notice so you'll know how to live. I'm giving you good counsel; don't let it go in one ear and out the other.
Hear, O sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention that you may gain understanding,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye: Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 6:20-23, Psalms 34:11, 1 Thessalonians 2:11, 1 Thessalonians 2:12
attend: Proverbs 2:1-5, Proverbs 5:1, Proverbs 7:4, Proverbs 8:32-36, Proverbs 19:20, Proverbs 22:17, Hebrews 2:1
Reciprocal: Genesis 49:2 - hearken Deuteronomy 4:9 - teach them Deuteronomy 11:19 - General Job 33:33 - hearken Psalms 32:8 - instruct Psalms 49:3 - mouth Psalms 119:9 - shall Proverbs 5:7 - Hear Proverbs 7:24 - O Proverbs 8:33 - Hear Proverbs 13:1 - wise Proverbs 23:15 - My son Jeremiah 35:8 - General Ephesians 6:4 - but Colossians 3:21 - General
Cross-References
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. You will bite her child's foot, but he will crush your head."
Adam again had sexual relations with his wife, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth. Eve said, "God has given me another son. Cain killed Abel, but now I have Seth."
Lamech named his son Noah. Lamech said, "We work very hard as farmers because God cursed the ground. But Noah will bring us rest."
Now, kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations with a man.
Don't be like Cain. He belonged to the Evil One. Cain killed his brother. But why did he kill him? Because what Cain did was evil, and what his brother did was good.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father,.... Either of God their father, as Gersom interprets it; or rather of Solomon their father: and so he recommends his instruction from the relation he stood in to them; for, since he was their father, he would give them no bad instruction; and, since they were his children, they ought to receive it: by whom are meant, not his children in a natural sense, or the children of his body; but his disciples, such who applied to him for knowledge, and whom he undertook to learn;
and attend to know understanding; what would serve to enlighten, enlarge, improve, and inform their understandings; what would lead them into the knowledge and understanding of things divine and spiritual, and which would be worth knowing; and of having their understandings stored and enriched with.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The words âye childrenâ indicate as usual a new section returning, after the break of Proverbs 3:27-35, to the old strain of fatherly counsel.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER IV
The preceptor calls his pupils, and tells them how himself was
educated, 1-4;
specifies the teachings he received, 5-19;
and exhorts his pupil to persevere in well-doing, and to avoid
evil, 20-27.
NOTES ON CHAP. IV
Verse Proverbs 4:1. Hear, ye children — Come, my pupils, and hear how a father instructed his child. Such as I received from my father I give to you, and they were the teachings of a wise and affectionate parent to his only son, a peculiar object of his regards, and also those of a fond mother.
He introduces the subject thus, to show that the teaching he received, and which he was about to give them, was the most excellent of its kind. By this he ensured their attention, and made his way to their heart. Teaching by precept is good; teaching by example is better; but teaching both by precept and example is best of all.
