Proverbs 1

Avoid the Path of the Violent

8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,

and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,  * 1:8 Pr 6:20; 31:1

9 for they will be a garland  * 1:9 Pr 4:9 of favor on your head

and pendants  * 1:9 Lit chains around your neck.  * 1:9 Gn 41:42; Pr 6:21; Dn 5:29