1. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.
2. I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
3. For I also was my father's son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother:
4. And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.
5. Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.