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5 Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;
5 Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.
5 Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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Commentary on Proverbs 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
When the things of God are to be taught precept must be upon precept, and line upon line, not only because the things themselves are of great worth and weight, but because men's minds, at the best, are unapt to admit them and commonly prejudiced against them; and therefore Solomon, in this chapter, with a great variety of expression and a pleasant powerful flood of divine eloquence, inculcates the same things that he had pressed upon us in the foregoing chapters. Here is,
So plainly, so pressingly, is the case laid before us, that we shall be for ever inexcusable if we perish in our folly.
Pro 4:1-13
Here we have,
Pro 4:14-19
Some make David's instructions to Solomon, which began v. 4, to continue to the end of the chapter; nay, some continue them to the end of the ninth chapter; but it is more probable that Solomon begins here again, if not sooner. In these verses, having exhorted us to walk in the paths of wisdom, he cautions us against the path of the wicked.
Pro 4:20-27
Solomon, having warned us not to do evil, here teaches us how to do well. It is not enough for us to shun the occasions of sin, but we must study the methods of duty.