Listen to advice and accept instruction, so that in the end you may be wise.
Notice the man of integrity and watch the upright— for the man of shalom has a future.
So teach us to number our days, so that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Satisfy us in the morning with Your love, so we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
to acquire wisdom and discipline, to understand the words of insight,
to receive instruction in wise behavior, righteousness, justice and fairness,
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
A fool’s way is right in his own eyes, but the wise listen to advice.
Arrogance yields nothing but strife. Wisdom belongs to those who take advice.
Whoever avoids correction despises himself, but whoever heeds reproof acquires understanding.
One with great rage will pay a penalty. For if you rescue him, you will have to do it again.
Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention, to gain understanding.
Counsel and sound wisdom are mine. I have understanding and power.
Heed discipline and be wise, and do not neglect it.
Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I abandon you, lest I make you desolate— an uninhabited land.”
I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me, you will accept correction, so her dwelling place would not be cut off— all that I appointed against her.’ But they arose early and made all their deeds corrupt.
Who can count Jacob’s dust? Who can number a fourth of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”
“If they were wise, they would discern this, they would understand their hereafter.
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, in order to afflict you and test you, to do you good in the end.