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Proverbs 4:20
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My son, pay attention to my words;listen closely to my sayings.
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My child, pay attention to my words; listen closely to what I say.
My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.
My son, pay attention to my words and be willing to learn; Open your ears to my sayings.
My son, pay attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
My son, pay attention to my words;Incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My child, listen carefully to everything I say.
My son, pay attention to what I am saying; incline your ear to my words.
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
My son, pay attention to what I say. Listen closely to my words.
My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen to my words.
My child, be attentive to my words; to my sayings incline your ear.
My son, pay attention to my words; stretch your ear to what I say;
My sonne, marcke my wordes, and enclyne thine eare vnto my saynges.
My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.
My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
My sonne marke my wordes, and encline thyne eare vnto my sayinges:
My son, attend to my speech; and apply thine ear to my words:
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Mi sone, herkene thou my wordis; and bowe doun thin eeris to my spechis.
My son, attend to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, attend to my words; incline thy ear to my sayings.
My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words.
My son, listen to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
My child, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, to my words, attend, to my sayings, incline thou thine ear;
My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,
Dear friend, listen well to my words; tune your ears to my voice. Keep my message in plain view at all times. Concentrate! Learn it by heart! Those who discover these words live, really live; body and soul, they're bursting with health.
My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 5:1, Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 6:21, Proverbs 7:1, Psalms 78:1, Psalms 90:12, Isaiah 55:3, Matthew 17:5
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:9 - keep thy soul Proverbs 2:1 - hide Proverbs 8:6 - for Proverbs 13:1 - wise Hebrews 2:1 - the more
Cross-References
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My son, attend to my words,.... Which go before and which follow after, his doctrines, instructions, cautions, and exhortations;
incline thine ear unto my sayings; stoop and bow the ear; listen attentively to what is said, as being of the greatest moment and importance.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.
Proverbs 4:7
Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.” To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.
Proverbs 4:12
The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (“when thou runnest”) there is no risk of falling.
Proverbs 4:13
She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.
Proverbs 4:16
A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.
Proverbs 4:17
i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, “They eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.” Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.
Proverbs 4:18
Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good man’s life. Compare the marginal reference.
Proverbs 4:19
Compare our Lord’s teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.
Proverbs 4:20
The teacher speaks again in his own person.
