Proverbi 4:18-27

18 ma il sentiero dei giusti è come la luce che spunta e va vie più risplendendo, finché sia giorno perfetto.

19 La via degli empi è come il buio; essi non scorgono ciò che li farà cadere.

20 Figliuol mio, sta’ attento alle mie parole, inclina l’orecchio ai miei detti;

21 non si dipartano mai dai tuoi occhi, serbali nel fondo del cuore;

22 poiché sono vita per quelli che li trovano, e salute per tutto il loro corpo.

23 Custodisci il tuo cuore più d’ogni altra cosa, poiché da esso procedono le sorgenti della vita.

24 Rimuovi da te la perversità della bocca, e allontana da te la falsità delle labbra.

25 Gli occhi tuoi guardino bene in faccia, e le tue palpebre si dirigano dritto davanti a te.

26 Appiana il sentiero dei tuoi piedi, e tutte le tue vie siano ben preparate.

27 Non piegare né a destra né a sinistra, ritira il tuo piede dal male.

Proverbi 4:18-27 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.