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Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; See also: Hebrews 2:1 Psalms 34:11 Proverbs 1:8for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law. See also: 1 Timothy 4:6 Titus 1:9 Psalms 89:30-32For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother. See also: 1 Chronicles 22:5 1 Chronicles 29:1 Romans 12:16He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live. See also: Proverbs 3:1 Ephesians 6:4 John 12:50Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth. See also: James 1:5 Proverbs 3:13-18 2 Chronicles 34:2Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you. See also: 2 Thessalonians 2:10 Proverbs 4:21-22 Ephesians 3:17Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding. See also: Ecclesiastes 7:12 Ecclesiastes 9:16-18 Proverbs 23:23Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her. See also: Daniel 12:3 1 Samuel 2:30 Proverbs 3:35She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.” See also: Proverbs 1:9 1 Peter 5:4 Hebrews 2:7-9Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. See also: 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Proverbs 3:2 Jeremiah 9:20I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths. See also: Psalms 25:4-5 Ecclesiastes 12:9 Proverbs 8:9When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble. See also: Proverbs 3:23 Psalms 18:36 1 Peter 2:8Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life. See also: Proverbs 3:18 Hebrews 2:1 Proverbs 23:23Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. See also: Psalms 1:1 1 Corinthians 15:33 Proverbs 1:10Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on. See also: Ephesians 5:11 Job 22:23 1 Thessalonians 5:22For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall. See also: Psalms 36:4 Micah 2:1 Isaiah 57:20For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. See also: Proverbs 20:17 James 5:4-5 Micah 6:12But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day. See also: John 8:12 Job 11:17 Daniel 12:3The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over. See also: John 12:35 Isaiah 59:9-10 Jeremiah 23:12My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. See also: Proverbs 5:1 Isaiah 55:3 Proverbs 6:20-21Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart. See also: Proverbs 3:21 Proverbs 3:3 Proverbs 7:1-2For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body. See also: Proverbs 12:18 Jeremiah 33:6 Proverbs 4:10Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life. See also: Luke 6:45 Matthew 12:34-35 Mark 7:21-23Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. See also: James 1:26 Proverbs 8:8 Ephesians 4:25-31Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. See also: Psalms 119:37 Matthew 6:22 Job 31:1Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established. See also: Psalms 37:23 Hebrews 12:13 Psalms 119:5Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil. See also: Deuteronomy 5:32 Joshua 1:7 Deuteronomy 28:14

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Proverbs 4:1

Ver. 1. Father. He shews the greatest respect for his parents, v. 3. C.

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Proverbs 4:3

Ver. 3. As. This is not expressed. H. --- But Solomon was not the only son of Bethsabee, as S.

Luke (iii. 23.) specifies Nathan, his brother. See 2 K. xii. 24. Sept. have

"beloved in," &c.

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Proverbs 4:4

Ver. 4. He. Heb. is masculine. C. --- As David instructed his son, so the latter teaches all how they may learn wisdom. W.

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Proverbs 4:7

Ver. 7. Beginning. The first part of wisdom is to desire it. For nothing hindereth from being just, but that justice is not desired. S. Aug. in Ps. cxviii. 20. W. ---

"Wisdom is the principal part; therefore get," &c. Prot. H. --- It is the one thing necessary. C. --- The pearl, to acquire which we must part with every thing else, if required. Matt. xiii. 46. M.

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Proverbs 4:17

Ver. 17. Wickedness. Acquired thereby, or they make sin their food. C. xxvi. 6.

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Proverbs 4:18

Ver. 18. Day. They are children of light, (Jo. xii. 35.) and give edification, always advancing in virtue. M.

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Proverbs 4:19

Ver. 19. Fall. They are unconcerned about sin, and neither avoid it, nor strive to repent. C.

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Proverbs 4:22

Ver. 22. Flesh. All may derive benefit from their consideration. H.

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Proverbs 4:23

Ver. 23. From it. As the heart is the principal part of the body, so the will is the chief power of the soul, from which good or evil proceeds. W. --- A clean heart gives life, a corrupt one, death.

Mat. xv. 11. 19.

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Proverbs 4:24

Ver. 24. From thee. Neither detract, nor give any countenance to detractors.

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Proverbs 4:25

Ver. 25. Steps. Be attentive to thy own affairs. Prov. xvii. 24.

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Proverbs 4:26

Ver. 26. Straight. Heb. "ponder." Examine what thou takest in hand, and walk not at random.

Heb. xii. 13.

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Proverbs 4:27

Ver. 27. For, &c. What follows in not in Heb. or the Complut. (C.) Sept. But it is in the Roman,

&c. (H.) and in the new edition of S. Jerom, as it was explained by Ven. Bede.

Lyran and Cajetan reject it. C.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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