19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. …
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-28)Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go . Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: “ Here, my son, and be wise , Prov. 23:19. This will be an evidence that tho…
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