Proverbs 4:1

1 Sons, listen to [your] father's discipline, and pay attention in order to gain understanding.

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 Sons, listen to [your] father's discipline, and pay attention in order to gain understanding.

2 After all, I have taught you well. Do not abandon my teachings.

3 When I was a boy [learning] from my father, when I was a tender and only child of my mother,

4 they used to teach me and say to me, "Cling to my words wholeheartedly. Obey my commands so that you may live.

5 Acquire wisdom. Acquire understanding. Do not forget. Do not turn away from the words that I have spoken.