Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Proverbs 4:5

Context
NETBible

Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak. 1 

XREF

2Ch 34:2; Job 23:11; Ps 44:18; Ps 119:51,157; Pr 1:22,23; Pr 2:2-4; Pr 3:13-18; Pr 8:5; Pr 17:16; Pr 18:1; Pr 19:8; Pr 23:23; Jas 1:5

NET © Notes

tn Heb “from the words of my mouth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); TEV, CEV “what I say.”

sn The verse uses repetition for the imperative “acquire” to underscore the importance of getting wisdom; it then uses two verb forms for the one prepositional phrase to stress the warning.



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