Proverbios 4:2-12

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.

11 Por el camino de la sabiduría te he conducido, por sendas de rectitud te he guiado.

12 Cuando andes, tus pasos no serán obstruidos, y si corres, no tropezarás.

Proverbios 4:2-12 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.