Proverbs

³To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness and judgment and equity; ⁴To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion: ⁵That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; and that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: ⁶To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. ⁷The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. ⁸My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ⁹For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.