Proverbs 4:5 (BSB)

Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.

From Proverbs 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 4:5

• 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 4:5: Get wisdom, get understanding,.... Not only moral and political wisdom and understanding, but that which is spiritual and evangelical; Christ, and the knowledge of him; he being the only happy man that has an interest in him, and is possessed of him by faith, which is the meaning of getting him; See Gill on Pro 3:13; by which it appears, that what Solomon had before...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 4:5: Get--as a possession not to be given up. neither decline--that is, from obeying my word.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 4:5-6: Pro 4:5-6 The exhortation of the father now specializes itself: 5 Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not and turn not from the words of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, so shall she preserve thee; Love her, so shall she keep thee. Wisdom and understanding are (5a) thought of as objects of merchandise (cf.