Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach,
My son, pay attention to my wisdom, turn your ear to my words of insight,
Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and to insight, “You are my relative.”
for gaining wisdom and instruction; for understanding words of insight;
We have obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab son of Rekab commanded us. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine
“Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
A wise son heeds his father’s instruction, but a mocker does not respond to rebukes.