Proverbs 4:1

1 Listen, children, to a father's instruction; pay attention, in order to gain insight;

Proverbs 4:1 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 4:1

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.

Proverbs 4:1 In-Context

1 Listen, children, to a father's instruction; pay attention, in order to gain insight;

2 for I am giving you good advice; so don't abandon my teaching.

3 For I too was once a child to my father; and my mother, too, thought of me as her special darling.

4 He too taught me; he said to me, "Let your heart treasure my words; keep my commands, and live;

5 gain wisdom, gain insight; don't forget or turn from the words I am saying.