Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just; and my last end be like to them.
Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he hath known my name.
In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee.
O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end!
To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.
Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away he shall add another thing.
To know wisdom, and instruction:
Among the proud there are always contentions: but they that do all things with counsel, are ruled by wisdom.
He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his own soul: but he that yieldeth to reproof possesseth understanding.
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.
I said: Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive correction: and her dwelling shall not perish, for all things wherein I have visited her: but they rose early and corrupted all their thoughts.