1. Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
2. For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
3. For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
4. For giving to simple ones--prudence, To a youth--knowledge and discretion.
5. (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
6. For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
7. Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
8. Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,