My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

They have stricken me, wilt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.