Proverbs 4:10 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 4:10

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

KJV

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ASV

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.

WEB

Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.

YLT

Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee.

DBT

Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.

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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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Proverbs 3:2
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Proverbs 4:22
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Psalms 119:9
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Deuteronomy 11:21
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

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), all the good lessons he had taught him; and perhaps he means particularly the book of Psalms, many of which were Maschils--psalms of instruction, and two of them are expressly said to be for Solomon.

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

), as many in this world as Infinite Wisdom sees fit, and in the other world thou shalt live that life the years of which shall never be numbered. Keep her therefore, whatever it cost thee, for she is thy life,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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