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Proverbs 4:10
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Listen, my son. Accept my words,and you will live many years.
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
My child, listen and accept what I say. Then you will have a long life.
Hear, my son, and accept my sayings, And the years of your life will be many.
Listen, my son, and accept my sayings, And the years of your life will be many.
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
Heare, my sonne, & receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.
Hear, my son, and receive my sayingsAnd the years of your life will be many.
Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
My child, if you listen and obey my teachings, you will live a long time.
Listen, my son, receive what I say, and the years of your life will be many.
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.
Son, listen to me. Do what I say, and you will live a long time.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.
Listen to me, my child. Take seriously what I am telling you, and you will live a long life.
Listen, my child, take my sayings, and the years of your life shall be great.
Oh my son, hear and receive my sayings, and the years of your life shall be many.
Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes, that the yeares of thy life maye be many.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.
Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Heare, O my sonne, and receiue my sayings: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.
Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes, and the yeres of thy life shalbe many.
Hear, my son, and receive my words; and the years of thy life shall be increased, that the resources of thy life may be many.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Mi sone, here thou, and take my wordis; that the yeris of lijf be multiplied to thee.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of your life shall be many.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And the years of your life will be many.
My child, listen to me and do as I say, and you will have a long, good life.
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of your life will be many.
Hear, my child, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and they will multiply to thee the years of life.
Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.
Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life [are] multiplied to thee.
Dear friend, take my advice; it will add years to your life. I'm writing out clear directions to Wisdom Way, I'm drawing a map to Righteous Road. I don't want you ending up in blind alleys, or wasting time making wrong turns. Hold tight to good advice; don't relax your grip. Guard it well—your life is at stake! Don't take Wicked Bypass; don't so much as set foot on that road. Stay clear of it; give it a wide berth. Make a detour and be on your way.
Hear, my son, and accept my sayings And the years of your life will be many.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
my: Proverbs 8:10, Proverbs 19:20, Job 22:22, Jeremiah 9:20, John 3:32, John 3:33, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, 1 Timothy 1:15
the: Proverbs 3:2, Proverbs 3:16, Deuteronomy 5:16, Deuteronomy 6:2
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 11:21 - your days Psalms 119:9 - shall Proverbs 4:22 - life Proverbs 23:19 - and guide Jeremiah 35:8 - General John 17:8 - received
Cross-References
So the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" And he replied, "I don't know! Am I my brother's guardian?"
But the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!
For your lifeblood I will surely exact punishment, from every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person I will exact punishment for the life of the individual since the man was his relative.
So the Lord said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant
The Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
"You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
So Joshua said to Achan, "My son, honor the Lord God of Israel and give him praise! Tell me what you did; don't hide anything from me!"
‘"Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday," says the Lord , "and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land," says the Lord .' So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the Lord said."
"O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings,.... Some think David is still speaking to his son Solomon, or Solomon continues relating what his father said to him; though I rather think these are Solomon's words to his son, to everyone of his children that came to him for instruction, or he took upon him to teach; whom he advises to listen to what he had further to say, and to embrace, and not reject, his doctrines;
and the years of thy life shall be many; see Proverbs 3:1; long life here, and length of days for ever and ever, or eternal life hereafter; which must be a very forcible argument to engage attention to his sayings.
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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 4:10. The years of thy life shall be many. — Vice and intemperance impair the health and shorten the days of the wicked; while true religion, sobriety, and temperance, prolong them. The principal part of our diseases springs from "indolence, intemperance, and disorderly passions." Religion excites to industry, promotes sober habits, and destroys evil passions, and harmonizes the soul; and thus, by preventing many diseases, necessarily prolongs life.
