Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;
Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and reject not your mother's teaching;
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!”
Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the man of peace.
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end!
receive instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;
I have counsel and sound wisdom, I have insight, I have strength.
Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
A man of great wrath will pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.
That men may know wisdom and instruction, understand words of insight,
By insolence the heedless make strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
He who ignores instruction despises himself, but he who heeds admonition gains understanding.
Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”
I said, ‘Surely she will fear me, she will accept correction; she will not lose sight of all that I have enjoined upon her.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.”