I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”
Hear, my child, your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teaching,
Now I am at the point of utter ruin in the public assembly.”
I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;
Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.