Sons, hear the instruction of a father, pay attention to know understanding.
Gather yourselves and hear, sons of Jacob; yea, listen to your father Israel:
My sons, come, listen to Me; I will make known to you the fear of Jehovah.
To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
My son, hear your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the law of your mother;
A wise son hears his father’s instruction, but a scorner does not hear rebuke.
Hear counsel and accept chastening, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Stretch your ear and hear the words of the wise one, and apply your heart to My knowledge,
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; stretch out your ear to my understanding;
Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinswoman,
And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, to all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters,
Because of this it is needful for us more abundantly to take heed to the things having been heard that we should not slip away at any time.