Proverbios 4:3-13

3 Porque yo fuí hijo de mi padre, Delicado y único delante de mi madre.

4 Y él me enseñaba, y me decía: Mantenga tu corazón mis razones, Guarda mis mandamientos, y vivirás:

5 Adquiere sabiduría, adquiere inteligencia; No te olvides ni te apartes de las razones de mi boca;

6 No la dejes, y ella te guardará; Amala, y te conservará.

7 Sabiduría ante todo: adquiere sabiduría: Y ante toda tu posesión adquiere inteligencia.

8 Engrandécela, y ella te engrandecerá: Ella te honrará, cuando tú la hubieres abrazado.

9 Adorno de gracia dará á tu cabeza: Corona de hermosura te entregará.

10 Oye, hijo mío, y recibe mis razones; Y se te multiplicarán años de vida.

11 Por el camino de la sabiduría te he encaminado, Y por veredas derechas te he hecho andar.

12 Cuando anduvieres no se estrecharán tus pasos; Y si corrieres, no tropezarás.

13 Ten el consejo, no lo dejes; Guárdalo, porque eso es tu vida.

Proverbios 4:3-13 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.