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Proverbs 4:20
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My son, pay attention to my words;listen closely to my sayings.
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.
My son, pay attention to my words and be willing to learn; Open your ears to my sayings.
My son, pay attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
My son, pay attention to my words;Incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My child, listen carefully to everything I say.
My son, pay attention to what I am saying; incline your ear to my words.
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
My son, pay attention to what I say. Listen closely to my words.
My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen to my words.
My child, be attentive to my words; to my sayings incline your ear.
My son, pay attention to my words; stretch your ear to what I say;
My sonne, marcke my wordes, and enclyne thine eare vnto my saynges.
My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.
My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
My sonne marke my wordes, and encline thyne eare vnto my sayinges:
My son, attend to my speech; and apply thine ear to my words:
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Mi sone, herkene thou my wordis; and bowe doun thin eeris to my spechis.
My son, attend to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, attend to my words; incline thy ear to my sayings.
My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words.
My son, listen to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
My child, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, to my words, attend, to my sayings, incline thou thine ear;
My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,
Dear friend, listen well to my words; tune your ears to my voice. Keep my message in plain view at all times. Concentrate! Learn it by heart! Those who discover these words live, really live; body and soul, they're bursting with health.
My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 5:1, Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 6:21, Proverbs 7:1, Psalms 78:1, Psalms 90:12, Isaiah 55:3, Matthew 17:5
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:9 - keep thy soul Proverbs 2:1 - hide Proverbs 8:6 - for Proverbs 13:1 - wise Hebrews 2:1 - the more
Cross-References
After that, Eve gave birth to Cain's brother Abel. Abel took care of flocks, and Cain became a farmer.
Abel brought the best parts from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord accepted Abel and his gift,
but he did not accept Cain and his gift. So Cain became very angry and felt rejected.
Later, the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" Cain answered, "I don't know. Is it my job to take care of my brother?"
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.
And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother's blood fell and where your hands killed him.
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."
Jabal's brother was Jubal, the first person to play the harp and flute.
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter. He loved to be out in the fields. But Jacob was a quiet man and stayed among the tents.
You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning and was against the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he shows what he is really like, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My son, attend to my words,.... Which go before and which follow after, his doctrines, instructions, cautions, and exhortations;
incline thine ear unto my sayings; stoop and bow the ear; listen attentively to what is said, as being of the greatest moment and importance.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.
Proverbs 4:7
Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.” To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.
Proverbs 4:12
The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (“when thou runnest”) there is no risk of falling.
Proverbs 4:13
She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.
Proverbs 4:16
A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.
Proverbs 4:17
i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, “They eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.” Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.
Proverbs 4:18
Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good man’s life. Compare the marginal reference.
Proverbs 4:19
Compare our Lord’s teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.
Proverbs 4:20
The teacher speaks again in his own person.
