5. (Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)
6. To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable,the sayings of the wise and their riddles.
7. Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge,but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8. Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father,and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
9. For they will be like an elegant garland on your head,and like pendants around your neck.
10. My child, if sinners try to entice you,do not consent!
11. If they say, “Come with us!We will lie in wait to shed blood;we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
12. We will swallow them alive like Sheol,those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
13. We will seize all kinds of precious wealth;we will fill our houses with plunder.
14. Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.”
15. My child, do not go down their way,withhold yourself from their path;
16. for they are eager to inflict harm,and they hasten to shed blood.
17. Surely it is futile to spread a netin plain sight of any bird,
18. but these men lie in wait for their own blood,they ambush their own lives!
19. Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
20. Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas;
21. at the head of the noisy streets she calls,in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words: