Proverbes 4:1

1 Ecoutez, mes fils, l'instruction d'un père, Et soyez attentifs, pour connaître la sagesse;

Proverbes 4:1 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 4:1

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father
Either of God their father, as Gersom interprets it; or rather of Solomon their father: and so he recommends his instruction from the relation he stood in to them; for, since he was their father, he would give them no bad instruction; and, since they were his children, they ought to receive it: by whom are meant, not his children in a natural sense, or the children of his body; but his disciples, such who applied to him for knowledge, and whom he undertook to learn; and attend to know understanding;
what would serve to enlighten, enlarge, improve, and inform their understandings; what would lead them into the knowledge and understanding of things divine and spiritual, and which would be worth knowing; and of having their understandings stored and enriched with.

Proverbes 4:1 In-Context

1 Ecoutez, mes fils, l'instruction d'un père, Et soyez attentifs, pour connaître la sagesse;

2 Car je vous donne de bons conseils: Ne rejetez pas mon enseignement.

3 J'étais un fils pour mon père, Un fils tendre et unique auprès de ma mère.

4 Il m'instruisait alors, et il me disait: Que ton coeur retienne mes paroles; Observe mes préceptes, et tu vivras.

5 Acquiers la sagesse, acquiers l'intelligence; N'oublie pas les paroles de ma bouche, et ne t'en détourne pas.