I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”
he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”