Listen and pay attention. Those seem to be the repeated commands throughout Proverbs 4. It is a command to listen to sound teaching. Teaching that has been proven time and again, and now disseminated in order to keep the offspring or the reader from making similar mistakes, and to instruct them in the right way to go.
Avoiding the path of evil serves to keep one from doing evil. It sounds a bit redundant, but if you avoid the road to evil altogether...in other words, avoid situations that could bring one into contact with temptation, you will be less prone to walk with the wicked, to cave into temptation.
I just think verse 18 and 19 are so great. The path to righteousness shines. You can always see where you are going. There is a sense of enlightenment and knowledge not found in the paths of darkness. "They do not know what makes them stumble." Isn't that the truth. This is what the wicked do and they don't know why. You've stumbled around in a dark room. You never know when you are going to crush your toe against an ottoman or something. You can't see.
Turn on the light.
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