²² Listen to your father who gave you life,
    and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
²³ Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
    Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

¹³ My son, eat honey, for it is good,
    the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
¹⁴ so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul.
    If you have found it, then there will be a reward:
    Your hope will not be cut off.

⁵ Evil men don’t understand justice;
    but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

¹⁵ The rod of correction gives wisdom,
    but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.