Proverbs 1:5-9

Modern English Version

⁵ a wise man will hear and will increase learning,
    and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,
⁶ to understand a proverb and the interpretation,
    the words of the wise and their riddles.

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of your father,
    and do not forsake the teaching of your mother;
⁹ for they will be a garland of grace on your head,
    and chains about your neck.