Proverbs 4:6 (BSB)

Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.

From Proverbs 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 4:6

• 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 4:6: Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee,.... That is, Wisdom, or Christ. Men may be said to forsake Christ when they forsake the assembly of his church and people, which are his other self; when they forsake his ministers, his ambassadors, and representatives; when they forsake his word and ordinances; when they drop the doctrines of the Gospel, or depart from them; when they...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 4:6: Not only accept but love wisdom, who will keep thee from evil, and evil from thee.
• 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.