Catholic Public Domain Version
"so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck."
— Proverbs 1:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.”
“For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck. ”
“for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.”
“For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.”
“That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.”
“For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.”
“For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.”
He shall turn his soul to a parable and to its interpretation, to the words of the wise and their enigmas.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.
Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck.
My son, if sinners should entice you, do not consent to them.
If they should say: “Come with us. We will lie in wait for blood. We will lay traps against the innocent, without cause.
Let us swallow him alive, like Hell, and whole, like one descending into the pit.