Proverbios 4:1-10

1 Oíd, hijos, la instrucción de un padre, y prestad atención para que ganéis entendimiento,

2 porque os doy buena enseñanza; no abandonéis mi instrucción.

3 También yo fui hijo para mi padre, tierno y único a los ojos de mi madre,

4 y él me enseñaba y me decía: Retenga tu corazón mis palabras, guarda mis mandamientos y vivirás.

5 Adquiere sabiduría, adquiere inteligencia; no te olvides ni te apartes de las palabras de mi boca.

6 No la abandones y ella velará sobre ti, ámala y ella te protegerá.

7 Lo principal es la sabiduría; adquiere sabiduría, y con todo lo que obtengas adquiere inteligencia.

8 Estímala, y ella te ensalzará; ella te honrará si tú la abrazas;

9 guirnalda de gracia pondrá en tu cabeza, corona de hermosura te entregará.

10 Oye, hijo mío, recibe mis palabras, y muchos serán los años de tu vida.

Proverbios 4:1-10 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.

Footnotes

• [a] Lit., conozcis