Chapter 4
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
ye
1:8 6:20-23 Psalms 34:11 1 Thessalonians 2:11,12
attend
2:1-5 5:1 7:4 8:32-36 19:20 22:17 Hebrews 2:1
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
good
8:6-9 22:20,21 Deuteronomy 32:2 Job 33:3 Psalms 49:1-3 John 7:16,17 1 Timothy 4:6 Titus 1:9
forsake
1 Chronicles 28:9 2 Chronicles 7:19 Psalms 89:30-32
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
2 Samuel 12:24,25 1 Kings 1:13-17 1 Chronicles 3:5 22:5 29:1 Jeremiah 10:23 Romans 12:16
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
He
22:6 Genesis 18:19 1 Chronicles 22:11-16 28:9 Ephesians 6:4 2 Timothy 1:5 3:15
Let
3:1 Deuteronomy 4:9 6:6 Psalms 119:11
keep
7:2 Leviticus 18:3-5 Isaiah 55:3 John 12:50 Hebrews 5:9
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom
1:22,23 2:2-4 3:13-18 8:5 17:16 18:1 19:8 23:23 James 1:5
neither
2 Chronicles 34:2 Job 23:11 Psalms 44:18 119:51,157
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
love
21,22 2:10-12 Ephesians 3:17 2 Thessalonians 2:10
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Wisdom is
Ecclesiastes 7:12 9:16-18 Matthew 13:44-46 Luke 10:42 Philippians 3:8
with
16:16 21:6 Psalms 49:16-20 Ecclesiastes 2:4-9 4:8 Mark 8:36,37 Luke 12:20
get understanding
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
3:35 22:4 1 Samuel 2:30 1 Kings 3:5-13 Daniel 12:3
She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
give
1:9 3:22 1 Timothy 2:9,10 1 Peter 3:4
a crown, etc
or, she shall compass thee with a crown of glory.
16:31 Isaiah 28:5 Hebrews 2:7-9 1 Peter 5:4 Revelation 3:21
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
my
8:10 19:20 Job 22:22 Jeremiah 9:20 John 3:32,33 1 Thessalonians 2:13 1 Timothy 1:15
the
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
taught
4 Deuteronomy 4:5 1 Samuel 12:24 Ecclesiastes 12:9
led
8:6,9,20 Psalms 23:3 25:4,5 Acts 13:10
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
thou goest
6:22 2 Samuel 22:37 Job 18:7,8 Psalms 18:36
thou shalt
19 3:23 Psalms 91:11,12 119:165 Jeremiah 31:9 John 11:9,10 Romans 9:32,33 1 Peter 2:8 1 John 2:10,11
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Take
3:18 23:23 Acts 2:42 11:23 1 Thessalonians 5:21 Hebrews 2:1 Revelation 2:13 12:11
let
Genesis 32:26 Song of Solomon 3:4 Luke 24:27-29 John 4:39-42
she
3:22 Deuteronomy 32:47 Ecclesiastes 7:12 John 6:68
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
1:10,15 2:11,12 9:6 13:20 Psalms 1:1 26:4,5 1 Corinthians 15:33
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
5:8 6:5 Exodus 23:7 Job 11:14 22:23 Isaiah 33:15 Ephesians 5:11 1 Thessalonians 5:22
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
1:16 Psalms 36:4 Isaiah 57:20 Micah 2:1 Luke 22:66 John 18:28 2 Peter 2:14
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
9:17 20:17 Job 24:5,6 Psalms 14:4 Jeremiah 5:26-28 Ezekiel 22:25-29 Amos 8:4-6 Micah 3:5 6:12 Zephaniah 3:3 Matthew 23:14 James 5:4,5
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
2 Samuel 23:4 Job 11:17 23:10 Psalms 84:7 Hosea 6:3 Zechariah 14:6,7 Matthew 5:14,16,45 John 8:12 2 Corinthians 3:18 Philippians 2:15 2 Peter 1:19 3:18 Revelation 21:23 22:5
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
1 Samuel 2:9 Job 5:14 12:25 18:5,6,18 Isaiah 59:9,10 Jeremiah 13:16 23:12 Matthew 7:23 15:14 John 12:35 1 John 2:11
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
5:1 6:20,21 7:1 Psalms 78:1 90:12 Isaiah 55:3 Matthew 17:5
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
depart
in the
2:1 Psalms 40:8 *marg:
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
life
health
Heb. medicine.
3:8 *marg:; 12:18 Jeremiah 33:6
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Keep
22:5 23:19 28:26 Deuteronomy 4:9 Psalms 139:23,24 Jeremiah 17:9 Mark 14:38 Hebrews 12:15
with all diligence
Heb. above all keeping.
7 3:21 11:16 13:3 Ecclesiastes 5:13
for
Matthew 12:35 15:19 Mark 7:21-23 James 1:14,15
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Put
Job 11:14 Ezekiel 18:31 Ephesians 4:25-31 Colossians 3:8 James 1:21,26 1 Peter 2:1
a, etc
Heb. frowardness of mouth, and perverseness of lips.
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
23:5,33 Job 31:1 Psalms 119:37 Matthew 6:22
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Ponder
5:6 Psalms 119:59 Ezekiel 18:28 Haggai 1:5,7 Ephesians 5:15,17
let all thy ways be established
or, all thy ways shall be ordered aright.
Psalms 37:23 40:2 1 Thessalonians 3:13 2 Thessalonians 3:3 1 Peter 5:10
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Turn
Deuteronomy 5:32 12:32 28:14 Joshua 1:7