Proverbs 2:1
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
American King James Version (AKJV)
My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
American Standard Version (ASV)
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;
Basic English Translation (BBE)
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Webster's Revision
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
World English Bible
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
English Revised Version (ERV)
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
Clarke's Proverbs 2:1 Bible Commentary
My son - Here the tutor still continues to instruct his disciple.
Hide my commandments with theel Treasure them up in thy heart, and then act from them through the medium of thy affections. He who has the rule of his duty only in his Bible and in his head, is not likely to be a steady, consistent character; his heart is not engaged, and his obedience, in any case, can be only forced, or done from a sense of duty: it is not the obedience of a loving, dutiful child, to an affectionate father. But he who has the word of God in his heart, works from his heart; his heart goes with him in all things, and he delights to do the will of his heavenly Father, because his law is in his heart. See Proverbs 3:3.
Barnes's Proverbs 2:1 Bible Commentary
Now in the divine order comes the promise Proverbs 2:5. The conditions of its fulfillment are stated in Proverbs 2:1-4 in four sets of parallel clauses, each with some shade of distinct meaning. Thus, not "receiving" only, but "hiding" or treasuring up - not the "ear" only, but the "heart" - not the mere "cry," but the eager "lifting up the voice."
Wesley's Proverbs 2:1 Bible Commentary
2:1 Hide - Lay them up in thy heart with care, as men do their choicest treasures.