8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,
8 Pay close attention, friend, to what your father tells you; never forget what you learned at your mother's knee.
8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother;
8 My child, listen when your father corrects you. Don't neglect your mother's instruction.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 1:8
Commentary on Proverbs 1:7-9
(Read Proverbs 1:7-9)
Fools are persons who have no true wisdom, who follow their own devices, without regard to reason, or reverence for God. Children are reasonable creatures, and when we tell them what they must do, we must tell them why. But they are corrupt and wilful, therefore with the instruction there is need of a law. Let Divine truths and commands be to us most honourable; let us value them, and then they shall be so to us.