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Selected Verse: Proverbs 6:20 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 6:20 |
King James |
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Compare Pro 1:8; Pro 3:3, &c.). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
After these three smaller sections, the teacher of wisdom returns here to the theme of the eighth: Warning against sins of the flesh, whose power and prevalence among men is so immeasurably great, that their terrible consequences cannot sufficiently be held up before them, particularly before youth.
20 Keep, my son, the commandment of thy father,
And reject not the instruction of thy mother.
21 Bind them to thy heart evermore,
Fasten them about thy neck.
The suff. -ēm refers to the good doctrine (cf. Pro 7:3) pointed out by מצוה and תּורה; the masc. stands, as is usual (e.g., Pro 1:16; Pro 5:2), instead of the fem. Regarding the figure, reminding us of the Tefillin and of Amuletes for perpetual representation, vid., under Pro 3:3. Similarly of persons, Sol 8:6. The verb ענד (only here and Job 31:36) signifies to bend, particularly to bend aside (Arab. 'ind, bending off, going aside; accus. as adv., aside, apud), and to bend up, to wind about, circumplicare. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The law - The word of God, which thy parents delivered to thee. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Keep thy father's commandment - See on Pro 1:8 (note). |
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: