1. Listen, sons, to the discipline of a father, and pay attention, so that you may know prudence.
2. I will bestow upon you a good gift. Do not relinquish my law.
3. For I, too, was the son of my father, tender and an only son in the sight of my mother.
4. And he taught me, and he also said: "Let your heart accept my words. Keep my precepts, and you shall live.