Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Proverbs 4:6
Verse Proverbs 4:6. Forsake her not] Wisdom personified is here represented as a guardian and companion, who, if not forsaken, will continue faithful; if loved, will continue a protector.
Verse Proverbs 4:6. Forsake her not] Wisdom personified is here represented as a guardian and companion, who, if not forsaken, will continue faithful; if loved, will continue a protector.
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17;...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Solomon's training (Proverbs 4:1)_ 2. Hear, O my son: Receive my sayings (Proverbs 4:10) 3. My son, attend to my words. (Proverbs 4:20)...
HER: i.e. wisdom. PRESERVE. guard. KEEP. protect, as one protects the apple of one's eye. See note on Proverbs 4:23....
Seventh Address. Chap. Proverbs 4:1-9 Resuming, after the parenthesis (Proverbs 3:27-35) the style and tone of fatherly address of the preceding sections, the Teacher commends Wisdom to his scholars...
CHAPTER 4 TEXT Proverbs 4:1-9 1. Hear my sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding: 2. For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law. 3. For I was a son unto my...
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. FORSAKE HER NOT, AND SHE SHALL PRESERVE THEE: LOVE HER, AND SHE SHALL KEEP THEE. If thou forsake her not, she will n...
ANCESTRAL WISDOM. THE TWO PATHS In Proverbs 4:1 the teacher lays stress on the fact that his instruction is a repetition of his father's. No teaching was thought valuable save that which was handed do...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 4 V1 My sons, listen to your father’s instruction. As you listen to me, you will understand more....
At last, we hear the advice. This is the lesson that grandfather taught. We must learn to be wise. As in earlier Chapter s, he compares wisdom to a woman. Wisdom, like a woman, deserves our love. Lik...
This poem is not just about Solomon’s family. It is about all families. It tells us that a father should teach his son. When he grows older, the son should teach his own children. Solomon’s family wa...
אַל ־תַּעַזְבֶ֥הָ וְ תִשְׁמְרֶ֑ךָּ אֱהָבֶ֥הָ וְ...
CHAPTER 5 EDUCATION: THE CHILD'S THOUGHT OF THE PARENT "Wisdom doth live with children round her knees." - Wordsworth. "He taught me, and said unto me," etc. Proverbs 4:4 THIS chapter begins with a...
THE COUNSELS OF EXPERIENCE. Proverbs 3:27-35; Proverbs 4:1-9 Here are many duties! _Be generous!_ Of course we must discriminate- _to whom it is due;_ and we must be prudent- _when it is in the powe...
In this chapter there are three addresses. The first is of the nature of personal testimony (verses Pro 4:1-9). The next two are exhortations to fidelity (verses Pro 4:10-27). The father urges his own...
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom, get unde...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
FORSAKE HER NOT, AND SHE SHALL PRESERVE THEE,.... That is, Wisdom, or Christ. Men may be said to forsake Christ when they forsake the assembly of his church and people, which are his other self; when...
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Ver. 6. _Forsake her not, &c._] Wisdom is her own reward. If she forsake us, it is because the desertion is first on o...
_He taught me also, and said unto me_ The following verses, at least as far as the tenth, are represented as containing the words of David, Solomon's father, that the name of so great a king, and so h...
Forsake her not, the wisdom which was here so highly praised, AND SHE SHALL PRESERVE THEE, serve as a protection against bad influences and uphold true life; LOVE HER, AND SHE SHALL KEEP THEE, this be...
ADMONITIONS CONCERNING WISDOM...
1-13 We must look upon our teachers as our fathers: though instruction carry in it reproof and correction, bid it welcome. Solomon's parents loved him, therefore taught him. Wise and godly men, in ev...
LOVE HER; he intimates that it is not enough to do what is good, which may sometimes proceed from worldly or sinful motives, but that we must have a sincere and fervent more and more unto the perfect...
Proverbs 4:6 forsake H5800 (H8799) preserve H8104 (H8799) Love H157 (H8798) keep H5341 (H8799) love -
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCE OF WHAT HIS FATHER HAD TAUGHT HIM AS ‘A SON' (PROVERBS 4:3). Solomon now stresses that his wisdom has partly come down to him from his father. This greatly added to it...
CONTENTS: Earnest exhortation to the study of true wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: True wisdom from God is the principle thing. It is that which recommends us to God, which be...
Proverbs 4:1. _Hear, ye children,_ a Hebraism, equivalent to wash, cleanse, and purify your ears. A grateful son here recites the domestic piety of an illustrious father. David talked much with his ch...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 4:8. EXALT or “esteem.” PROVERBS 4:9. Last clause, or “she shall compass thee with a crown of glory.” PROVERBS 4:10. As is all other instances (see Notes on Chap....
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 4:1 7. _Seventh admonitory discourse. _We here enter upon the second group of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my children," and which occurs again...
Continuing to his son. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you might know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, don't forsake my law. For I was my father's son, ten...
2 Thessalonians 2:10; Ephesians 3:17; Proverbs 2:10; Proverbs 4:21;...
SACRED EXHORTATIONS Proverbs 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is well, now and then, to step aside and consider what God has to say to young men and women; as well as to consider what He says to their fath...