Proverbs 4:1–4

A Father’s Wise Instruction

4 fHear, O sons, a father’s instruction,

and be attentive, that you may ggain1 insight,

2  for I give you good hprecepts;

do not forsake my teaching.

3  When I was a son with my father,

itender, jthe only one in the sight of my mother,

4  he ktaught me and said to me,

l“Let your heart hold fast my words;

mkeep my commandments, and live.