Proverbs 4:10

Douay-Rheims Bible

Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Listen, my son. Accept my words,and you will live many years.

Hebrew Names Version
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

King James Version
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

English Standard Version
Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

New Century Version
My child, listen and accept what I say. Then you will have a long life.

New English Translation
Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.

Amplified Bible
Hear, my son, and accept my sayings, And the years of your life will be many.

New American Standard Bible
Listen, my son, and accept my sayings, And the years of your life will be many.

World English Bible
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare, my sonne, & receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

Legacy Standard Bible
Hear, my son, and receive my sayingsAnd the years of your life will be many.

Berean Standard Bible
Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.

Contemporary English Version
My child, if you listen and obey my teachings, you will live a long time.

Complete Jewish Bible
Listen, my son, receive what I say, and the years of your life will be many.

Darby Translation
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.

Easy-to-Read Version
Son, listen to me. Do what I say, and you will live a long time.

George Lamsa Translation
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.

Good News Translation
Listen to me, my child. Take seriously what I am telling you, and you will live a long life.

Lexham English Bible
Listen, my child, take my sayings, and the years of your life shall be great.

Literal Translation
Oh my son, hear and receive my sayings, and the years of your life shall be many.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes, that the yeares of thy life maye be many.

American Standard Version
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.

Bible in Basic English
Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

King James Version (1611)
Heare, O my sonne, and receiue my sayings: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes, and the yeres of thy life shalbe many.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.

English Revised Version
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi sone, here thou, and take my wordis; that the yeris of lijf be multiplied to thee.

Update Bible Version
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of your life shall be many.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

New King James Version
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And the years of your life will be many.

New Living Translation
My child, listen to me and do as I say, and you will have a long, good life.

New Life Bible
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of your life will be many.

New Revised Standard
Hear, my child, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and they will multiply to thee the years of life.

Revised Standard Version
Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

Young's Literal Translation
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life [are] multiplied to thee.

THE MESSAGE
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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Hear, my son, and accept my sayings And the years of your life will be many.

Contextual Overview

¹ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that you may know prudence. ² I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law. ³ For I also was my father’s son, tender, and as an only son in the sight of my mother: ⁴ And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live. ⁵ Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee. ⁷ The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence. ⁸ Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her. ⁹ She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown. ¹⁰ Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.

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

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

Genesis 4:9
And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered: I know not: am I my brother’s keeper?

Genesis 4:10
And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth to me from the earth.

Genesis 9:5
For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

Genesis 18:20
And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.

Exodus 3:7
And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;

Numbers 35:33
Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.

Joshua 7:19
And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.

2 Kings 9:26
If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw yesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the field, according to the word of the Lord.

Job 16:18
(16-19) O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.

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.