Holman Christian Standard Bible

Proverbs 1:4-8 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

4. for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced, knowledge and discretion to a young man —

5. a wise man will listen and increase his learning, and a discerning man will obtain guidance —

6. for understanding a proverb or a parable, the words of the wise, and their riddles.

7. The fear of the Lordis the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.

8. Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,