for understanding a proverb or a parable,[a]
the words of the wise, and their riddles.(A)

The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge;(B)
fools despise wisdom and discipline.(C)

Avoid the Path of the Violent

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:6 Or an enigma

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