³³ If not, listen to me;
    be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”^(A)

⁵ O simple ones, learn prudence;
    acquire intelligence, you who lack it.^(A)

5 My child, be attentive to my wisdom;
    incline your ear to my understanding,^(A)
2 so that you may hold on to prudence,
    and your lips may guard knowledge.

4 Listen, children, to a father’s instruction,
    and be attentive, that you may gain^[a] insight,^(A)
2 for I give you good precepts:
    do not forsake my teaching.