Proverbes 4:1

1 Enfants, écoutez l'instruction de votre père, et soyez attentifs pour connaître la prudence.

Proverbes 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.

Proverbes 4:1 In-Context

1 Enfants, écoutez l'instruction de votre père, et soyez attentifs pour connaître la prudence.

2 Car je vous donne de bons conseils; n'abandonnez point mon enseignement.

3 Quand j'étais encore enfant près de mon père, tendre et chéri auprès de ma mère,

4 Il m'enseignait et me disait: Que ton cœur retienne mes paroles; garde mes commandements, et tu vivras.

5 Acquiers la sagesse, acquiers la prudence; ne l'oublie pas, et ne te détourne point des paroles de ma bouche.