² To know wisdom and instruction;
To discern the words of understanding;
³ To receive instruction in wise dealing,
In righteousness and justice and equity;
⁴ To give prudence to the simple,
To the young man knowledge and discretion:
⁵ That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;
And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
⁶ To understand a proverb, and ^[a]a figure,
The words of the wise, and their ^[b]dark sayings.

⁷ The fear of Jehovah is the ^[c]beginning of knowledge;
But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.