Proverbs 1:9 (BSB)

For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

From Proverbs 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 1:9

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 1:7-9: Solomon, having undertaken to teach a young man knowledge and discretion, here lays down two general rules to be observed in order thereunto, and those are, to fear God and honour his parents, which two fundamental laws of morality Pythagoras begins his golden verses with, but the former of them in a wretchedly corrupted state.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 1:9: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head,.... The instructions and laws of parents being attended unto and obeyed by children, render them more lovely and amiable than any beautiful ornament whatever that can be put upon their heads; and chains about thy neck; be that unto them as chains of gold are to the neck, beautify and adorn them; so good...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 1:9: On the figures of Pro 1:9, compare Gen 41:42; Sol 1:10; Sol 4:9.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 1:9: Pro 1:9 הם, which is also used in the neut. illa, e.g., Job 22:24, refers here to the paternal discipline and the maternal teaching. These, obediently received and followed, are the fairest ornament of the child. לויה, from לוה, to wind, to roll, Arab.