Proverbs 23:19 (BSB)

Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:19

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:19-28: 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, Pro 23:19.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:19: Hear thou, my son, and be wise,.... Hear the instruction of a father, of the word of Wisdom, of the ministers of the Gospel, which is the way to be wise unto salvation; faith comes by hearing; spiritual wisdom, and an increase of it; the Spirit of God, and his gifts and graces; and guide thine heart in the way; in the way of the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:19: guide . . . way--or direct thy thoughts to a right course of conduct (compare Pro 4:4; Pro 9:6).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 23:19: Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way. (i) In the observation of God's commandments.