Proverbs 5:7

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. obtain: Heb. bring forth But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. within...: Heb. in thy belly That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. even...: or, trust thou also Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee? to them...: or, to those that send thee?

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: