Proverbs 4:13 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 4:13

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

KJV

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ASV

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.

WEB

Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.

YLT

Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.

DBT

Take fast hold of instruction, let [her] not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

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), as being resolved to keep thy hold and never let it go." Those that have a good education, though they strive to shake it off, will find it hang about them a great while, and, if it do not, their case is very sad. [2.] He recommends to him wisdom and understanding as the end to be aimed at in the use of these means; that wisdom which is the principal wisdom, get that.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(1.) By way of precept and exhortation. David, in teaching his son, though he was a child of great capacity and quick apprehension, yet to show that he was in good earnest, and to affect his child the more with what he said, expressed himself with great warmth and importunity, and inculcated the same thing again and again.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Those that have got this wisdom must take heed of losing it again by returning to folly: it is indeed a good part, that shall not be taken from us; but then we must take heed lest we throw it from us, as those do that forget it first, and let it slip out of their minds, and then forsake it and turn out of its good ways.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

All thy satisfaction will be found in this;" and a soul without true wisdom and grace is really a dead soul. Secondly, "It will be thy guard and guide, thy convoy and conductor, through all the dangers and difficulties of thy journey through this wilderness.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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