⁷ Now therefore, `my' sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.

¹ Hear, `my' sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:

²¹ My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

²¹ Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

²⁴ Now therefore, `my' sons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.

³² Now therefore, `my' sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.

³³ Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.

³⁴ Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.

³⁵ For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.

³⁶ But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.

¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.

¹⁹ That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made `them' known to thee this day, even to thee.

²⁰ Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,

²¹ To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?

²⁵ See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned `them' on earth, much more `shall not' we `escape' who turn away from him that `warneth' from heaven: