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Proverbs 4:5
5Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
- New International Version (NIV)Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn away from them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
Context of Proverbs 4:5
3For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother. 4And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thy heart retain my words; keep my commandments and live. Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee; love her, and she shall preserve thee. 7The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.
Read all of Proverbs 4Proverbs 4:5 word by word
קְנֵ֣ה חָ֭כְמָה קְנֵ֣ה בִינָ֑ה אַל־תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח וְאַל־תֵּ֝֗ט מֵֽאִמְרֵי־פִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 4:5
- Proverbs 1:22How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 2:2so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom [and] thou apply thy heart to understanding;
- Proverbs 3:13Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
- Proverbs 8:5O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.
- Proverbs 17:16To what purpose is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he] hath no sense?
- Proverbs 18:1He that separateth himself seeketh [his] pleasure, he is vehement against all sound wisdom.
- Proverbs 19:8He that getteth sense loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
- Proverbs 23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
- James 1:5But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:
- 2 Chronicles 34:2And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand nor to the left.
- Job 23:11My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
- Psalms 44:18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;
- Psalms 119:51The proud have derided me beyond measure: I have not declined from thy law.
Commentaries on Proverbs 4:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Get wisdom - True religion is essential to thy happiness; never forget its teachings, nor go aside from the path it prescribes.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4-20Verses 4-20 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; Psalm 15:1-5; Psalm 24:1-10; 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5In the Old Testament, forgetting means more than just not remembering; it also means failing to obey.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Get--as a possession not to be given up. neither decline--that is, from obeying my word.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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