I would not listen to my teacher’s voice or incline my ear to my instructors.
and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
I was almost in utter ruin amid the community and congregation.”
I’ll get up and go to my father, and I’ll say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your presence.
Consequently, the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who gives His Ruach ha-Kodesh to you.
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.