Come, you children, listen to me; Let me teach you the fear of יהוה.
An old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
For He has satisfied a longing being, And has filled the hungry being with goodness.
The fear of יהוה is the beginning of wisdom, All those doing them have a good understanding. His praise is standing forever.
Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness is standing forever.
יהוה is my shepherd; I do not lack.
“Let Me instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; Let Me counsel, My eye be on you.
Come, hear, all you who fear Elohim, And I relate what He has done for my being.
The fear of יהוה is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he turns not away from it.
Children, listen to the discipline of a father, And give attention to know understanding;
And now, listen to me, you children; Pay attention to the words of my mouth:
“I love those who love me, And those who earnestly seek me do find me.
“And now, listen to me, you children, For blessed are they who guard my ways.
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart gladden you in the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these Elohim brings you into right-ruling.
Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts!
“Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek Me, and as I said to the Yehuḏ
and that from a babe you have known the Set-apart Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for deliverance through belief in Messiah יהושע.