Children, listen to your father’s teaching. Pay attention and you will learn how to learn.
So we must be more careful to follow what we were taught. We must be careful so that we will not be pulled away from the true way.
Children, come and listen to me; I will teach you to respect the Lord.
My son, listen to your father when he corrects you, and don’t ignore what your mother teaches you.
Listen carefully to these words from the wise. Pay attention to what I have learned.
Son, listen to this piece of wisdom from me. Pay attention to what I know to be true.
Listen to advice and accept discipline; then you, too, will become wise.
Treat wisdom like the woman you love and knowledge like the one dearest to you.
They will help you learn to be wise, to accept correction, and to understand wise sayings.
So we have obeyed everything our ancestor Jonadab commanded us. None of us ever drinks wine, and neither do our wives, sons, or daughters.
“Children of Jacob, gather around. Come listen to Israel, your father.
A wise son listens to his father’s advice, but a proud son will not listen to correction.