Proverbs 4:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Proverbs 3:13-18
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. …
2 Chronicles 34:2
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
Proverbs 1:22-23
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? …
Job 23:11
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

Here we have, I. The invitation which Solomon gives to his children to come and receive instruction from him (Prov. 4:1, 2): Hear, you children, the instruction of a father. That is, 1. “Let my own children, in the first place, receive and give good heed to those instructions which I set down for the use of others also.” Note, Magistrates and ministers, who are entrusted with the direction of larg…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Get--as a possession not to be given up. neither decline--that is, from obeying my word.