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