Provérbios 4:5-15

5 Adquire a sabedoria, adquire o entendimento; não te esqueças nem te desvies das palavras da minha boca.

6 Não a abandones, e ela te guardará; ama-a, e ela te preservará.

7 A sabedoria é a coisa principal; adquire, pois, a sabedoria; sim, com tudo o que possuis adquire o entendimento.

8 Estima-a, e ela te exaltará; se a abraçares, ela te honrará.

9 Ela dará � tua cabeça uma grinalda de graça; e uma coroa de glória te entregará.

10 Ouve, filho meu, e aceita as minhas palavras, para que se multipliquem os anos da tua vida.

11 Eu te ensinei o caminho da sabedoria; guiei-te pelas veredas da retidão.

12 Quando andares, não se embaraçarão os teus passos; e se correres, não tropeçarás.

13 Apega-te � instrução e não a largues; guarda-a, porque ela é a tua vida.

14 Não entres na vereda dos ímpios, nem andes pelo caminho dos maus.

15 Evita-o, não passes por ele; desvia-te dele e passa de largo.

Provérbios 4:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS 4

In this chapter Solomon advises to seek after wisdom, to avoid bad company, and to continue in the right paths of goodness and truth: he excites attention to what he had to say, from the relation he stood in to the persons addressed; from the nature of his instructions, which were good and profitable; and from his own example, in attending to those his parents gave him, Pr 4:1-4; He exhorts above all things to get wisdom, from the superior excellency of it, and from the preservation, promotion, and honour, to be had by it, Pr 4:5-9; and he further enforces big exhortations, from their being the means of a comfortable life, and of the prolongation of it, and of leading in a right way without straitness or stumbling, Pr 4:10-13. And then proceeds to caution against bad company, and going into a bad way of life; which is enforced from the mischief done by those that walk in it, and from the darkness of it, to which the path of the just is opposed, Pr 4:14-19. And the exhortation to attend to and observe his instructions, and keep them, is repeated, from the consideration of their being life and health to them, Pr 4:20-22; and that they might be preserved, and not departed from, direction's are given about ordering the heart, mouth, lips, eyes, and feet, Pr 4:23-27.