Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Ya`akov. Listen to Yisra'el, your father.
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:
Tell wisdom, *You are my sister.* Call understanding your relative,
We have obeyed the voice of Yehonadav the son of Rechav, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.