Authorized King James Version
"My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"
— Proverbs 1:8, Authorized King James Version
A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: