Listento counseland acceptdiscipline,That you may be wisethe restof your days.
Markthe blamelessman,and beholdthe upright;For the manof peacewill have a posterity.
Soteachus to numberour days,That we may presentto You a heartof wisdom.
O satisfyus in the morningwith Your lovingkindness,That we may singfor joyand be gladallour days.
To knowwisdomand instruction,To discernthe sayingsof understanding,
To receiveinstructionin wisebehavior,Righteousness,justiceand equity;
Hear,my son,your father'sinstructionAnd do not forsakeyour mother'steaching;
The wayof a foolis rightin his own eyes,But a wisemanis he who listensto counsel.
Through insolencecomesnothingbut strife,But wisdomis with those who receivecounsel.
He who neglectsdisciplinedespiseshimself,But he who listensto reproofacquiresunderstanding.
[A man of] greatangerwill bearthe penalty,For ifyou rescue[him], you will only have to doit again.
Hear,[O] sons,the instructionof a father,And giveattentionthat you may gainunderstanding,
"Counselis mine and soundwisdom;I am understanding,poweris mine.
"Heedinstructionand be wise,And do not neglect[it].
"Be warned,O Jerusalem,OrI shall be alienatedfrom you, And makeyou a desolation,A landnot inhabited."
"I said,'Surelyyou will revereMe, Acceptinstruction.'So her dwellingwill not be cutoff[According to] allthat I have appointedconcerningher. But they were eagerto corruptalltheir deeds.
"Whocan countthe dustof Jacob,Or numberthe fourthpartof Israel?Let me diethe deathof the upright,And let my endbe likehis!"
"Wouldthat they were wise,that they understoodthis,That they would discerntheir future!
"In the wildernessHe fedyou mannawhichyour fathersdid not know,that He might humbleyou and that He might testyou, to dogoodfor you in the end.
