Proverbs 4:2
New International Version
I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching.

New Living Translation
for I am giving you good guidance. Don’t turn away from my instructions.

English Standard Version
for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.

Berean Standard Bible
For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.

King James Bible
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

New King James Version
For I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law.

New American Standard Bible
For I give you good teaching; Do not abandon my instruction.

NASB 1995
For I give you sound teaching; Do not abandon my instruction.

NASB 1977
For I give you sound teaching; Do not abandon my instruction.

Legacy Standard Bible
For I give you sound learning; Do not forsake my instruction.

Amplified Bible
For I give you good doctrine; Do not turn away from my instruction.

Christian Standard Bible
for I am giving you good instruction. Don’t abandon my teaching.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for I am giving you good instruction. Don’t abandon my teaching.

American Standard Version
For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because I have given you good teaching, forsake not my law.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For I give you a good gift; forsake ye not my law.

Contemporary English Version
My advice is useful, so don't turn away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.

English Revised Version
For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my law.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
After all, I have taught you well. Do not abandon my teachings.

Good News Translation
What I am teaching you is good, so remember it all.

International Standard Version
I give you sound teaching, so do not abandon my instruction.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my teaching.

Literal Standard Version
For I have given to you good learning, do not forsake my law.

Majority Standard Bible
For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.

New American Bible
Yes, excellent advice I give you; my teaching do not forsake.

NET Bible
Because I give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.

New Revised Standard Version
for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.

New Heart English Bible
for I give you sound learning. Do not forsake my law.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

World English Bible
for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

Young's Literal Translation
For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.

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Context
A Father's Instruction
1Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. 2For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive. 3When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

Job 11:4
You have said, 'My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.'

Psalm 89:30
If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,

Psalm 119:87
They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken Your precepts.

Proverbs 3:1
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

Jeremiah 35:8
And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives--neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.


Treasury of Scripture

For I give you good doctrine, forsake you not my law.

good

Proverbs 8:6-9
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things…

Proverbs 22:20,21
Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, …

Deuteronomy 32:2
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

forsake

1 Chronicles 28:9
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

2 Chronicles 7:19
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

Psalm 89:30-32
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; …

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Verse 2. - For I give you good doctrine. This, while stating the reason for the exhortation in the previous verse, signifies that what the teacher has given and is giving, he has received from his father. I give; nathati, literally, "I gave," is the kal perfect of nathan, "to give," but the perfect is here used for the present, as denoting not only a past action, but one that is still continuing (Gesenius, 'Hebrews Gram.,' § 126. 3). Good doctrine (lekakh tov). The doctrine or instruction is "good," not only intrinsically, but as to the source from which it was derived, and in its effects. Lekakh is, according to its root lakakh, "something which is received or taken." From the standpoint of the teacher it is that instruction which he had received of his father. With respect to his hearers it is the instruction which is communicated to them, and which they receive (see on Proverbs 1:5). The LXX. renders, δῶρον ἀγαθὸν; similarly the Vulgate, donum bonum, "a good gift." Forsake ye not; al-taazovu, from azav, "to leave, forsake" (compare the corresponding phrase, al-tiltosh, from natash, "to leave, forsake," in Proverbs 1:8). Law (torah); as in Proverbs 1:8.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I give
נָתַ֣תִּי (nā·ṯat·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

you
לָכֶ֑ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

sound
ט֭וֹב (ṭō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

teaching;
לֶ֣קַח (le·qaḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3948: Something received, instruction, inveiglement

do not
אַֽל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

abandon
תַּעֲזֹֽבוּ׃ (ta·‘ă·zō·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit

my instruction.
תּֽ֝וֹרָתִ֗י (tō·w·rā·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law


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