8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,
8 Pay close attention, friend, to what your father tells you; never forget what you learned at your mother's knee.
8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother;
8 My child, listen when your father corrects you. Don't neglect your mother's instruction.
3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
3 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
3 Don't lose your grip on Love and Loyalty. Tie them around your neck; carve their initials on your heart.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,
3 Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart.
(Read Proverbs 3:1-6)
In the way of believing obedience to God's commandments health and peace may commonly be enjoyed; and though our days may not be long upon earth, we shall live for ever in heaven. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; God's mercy in promising, and his truth in performing: live up to them, keep up thine interest in them, and take the comfort of them. We must trust in the Lord with all our hearts, believing he is able and wise to do what is best. Those who know themselves, find their own understandings a broken reed, which, if they lean upon, will fail. Do not design any thing but what is lawful, and beg God to direct thee in every case, though it may seem quite plain. In all our ways that prove pleasant, in which we gain our point, we must acknowledge God with thankfulness. In all our ways that prove uncomfortable, and that are hedged up with thorns, we must acknowledge him with submission. It is promised, He shall direct thy paths; so that thy way shall be safe and good, and happy at last.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 1:8
Commentary on Proverbs 1:7-9
(Read Proverbs 1:7-9)
Fools are persons who have no true wisdom, who follow their own devices, without regard to reason, or reverence for God. Children are reasonable creatures, and when we tell them what they must do, we must tell them why. But they are corrupt and wilful, therefore with the instruction there is need of a law. Let Divine truths and commands be to us most honourable; let us value them, and then they shall be so to us.