Now therefore hearken unto me, O you children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.
[A song of ascents.] Blessed is every one that fears the LORD; that walks in his ways.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.
Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone that retains her.
Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Hearken unto me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.