²² Listen to your father—he who gave you life,^[a]
    and do not despise your mother when^[b] she is old.
²³ Buy truth and do not sell it,
    wisdom and instruction and understanding.

¹³ My child, eat honey, for it is good,
    and the dripping of the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
¹⁴ Thus know wisdom for the sake of your soul,^[a]
    if you find it, then there is a future,
    and your hope will not be cut off.

⁵ Men of evil do not understand justice,
    but seekers of Yahweh understand completely.^[a]

¹⁵ As for a rod and reproof, they^[a] will give wisdom,
    but a neglected child is disgraced by his mother.