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Text -- Proverbs 4:1-8 (NET)
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Admonition to Follow Righteousness and Avoid Wickedness
4:1 Listen , children , to a father’s instruction , and pay attention so that you may gain discernment .
4:2 Because I give you good instruction , do not forsake my teaching .
4:3 When I was a son to my father , a tender only child before my mother ,
4:4 he taught me, and he said to me: “Let your heart lay hold of my words ; keep my commands so that you will live .
4:5 Acquire wisdom , acquire understanding ; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak .
4:6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.
4:7 Wisdom is supreme – so acquire wisdom , and whatever you acquire , acquire understanding !
4:8 Esteem her highly and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
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NET Notes: Pro 4:2 The word לֶקַח (leqakh, “instruction”) can be subjective (instruction acquired) or objective (the thing bein...
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NET Notes: Pro 4:4 The imperative with the vav expresses volitional sequence after the preceding imperative: “keep and then you will live,” meaning “ke...
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NET Notes: Pro 4:5 The verse uses repetition for the imperative “acquire” to underscore the importance of getting wisdom; it then uses two verb forms for the...
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NET Notes: Pro 4:6 Heb “her”; the 3rd person feminine singular referent is personified “wisdom,” which has been specified in the translation for ...
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NET Notes: Pro 4:7 The verse is not in the LXX; some textual critics delete the verse as an impossible gloss that interrupts vv. 6 and 8 (e.g., C. H. Toy, Proverbs [ICC]...
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