Spreuken 4:1

1 Hoort, gij kinderen! de tucht des vaders, en merkt op, om verstand te weten.

Spreuken 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.

Spreuken 4:1 In-Context

1 Hoort, gij kinderen! de tucht des vaders, en merkt op, om verstand te weten.

2 Dewijl ik ulieden goede leer geve, verlaat mijn wet niet.

3 Want ik was mijns vaders zoon, teder, en een enige voor het aangezicht mijner moeder.

4 Hij nu leerde mij, en zeide tot mij: Uw hart houde mijn woorden vast, onderhoud mijn geboden, en leef.

5 Verkrijg wijsheid, verkrijg verstand; vergeet niet, en wijk niet van de redenen mijns monds.