Proverbs 4:1 (BSB)

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.

From Proverbs 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 4:1

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 4:1-13: Here we have, I. The invitation which Solomon gives to his children to come and receive instruction from him (Pro 4:1, Pro 4:2): 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...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 4:1: Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father,.... Either of God their father, as Gersom interprets it; or rather of Solomon their father: and so he recommends his instruction from the relation he stood in to them; for, since he was their father, he would give them no bad instruction; and, since they were his children, they ought to receive it: by whom are meant...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 4:1: Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. (a) He speaks this as a preacher and minister which is as a father to the people, .
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 4:1-4: Pro 4:1-4 He now confirms and explains the command to duty which he has placed at the beginning of the whole (Pro 1:8). This he does by his own example, for he relates from the history of his own youth, to the circle of disciples by whom he sees himself surrounded, what good doctrine his parents had taught him regarding the way of life: 1...