Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.