Proverbios 4:2-12

2 porque les doy una buena orientación.
No se alejen de mis instrucciones.

3 Pues yo, igual que ustedes, fui hijo de mi padre,
amado tiernamente como el hijo único de mi madre.

4 Mi padre me enseñó:
«Toma en serio mis palabras.
Sigue mis mandatos y vivirás.

5 Adquiere sabiduría, desarrolla buen juicio.
No te olvides de mis palabras ni te alejes de ellas.

6 No des la espalda a la sabiduría, pues ella te protegerá;
ámala, y ella te guardará.

7 ¡Adquirir sabiduría es lo más sabio que puedes hacer!
Y en todo lo demás que hagas, desarrolla buen juicio.

8 Si valoras la sabiduría, ella te engrandecerá.
Abrázala, y te honrará.

9 Te pondrá una hermosa guirnalda de flores sobre la cabeza;
te entregará una preciosa corona».

10 Hijo mío, escúchame y haz lo que te digo,
y tendrás una buena y larga vida.

11 Te enseñaré los caminos de la sabiduría
y te guiaré por sendas rectas.

12 Cuando camines, no te detendrán;
cuando corras, 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.