Heed discipline and be wise, and do not neglect it.
She cries out above the commotion. At the entrances of the city gates, she utters her speech:
(let the wise listen and increase learning and the discerning obtain wise counsel)
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Whoever avoids correction despises himself, but whoever heeds reproof acquires understanding.
Listen to advice and accept instruction, so that in the end you may be wise.
Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention, to gain understanding.
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Incline your ear to my insight,
See to it that you do not refuse the One who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the One who was warning them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject the One who warns us from heaven.
