<p class="poetry">If you stop listening to<n id="1" /> instruction, my child,p> <p class="poetry">you will stray<n id="2" /> from the words of knowledge.p>

<p class="poetry">The ear that hears and the eye that sees<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> has made them both.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">A lying witness<n id="1" /> will perish,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the one who reports accurately speaks forever.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Incline your ear<n id="2" /> and listen to the words of the wise,p> <p class="poetry">and apply your heart to my instruction.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Listen, my child,<n id="1" /> and be wise,p> <p class="poetry">and guide your heart on the right way.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who turns away his ear<n id="1" /> from hearing the law,p> <p class="poetry">even his prayer<n id="2" /> is an abomination.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Blessed is the one<n id="1" /> who listens to me,p> <p class="poetry">watching<n id="2" /> at my doors day by day,p> <p class="poetry">waiting<n id="3" /> beside my doorway.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to your father who begot you,p> <p class="poetry">and do not despise your mother when she is old.p>

<p class="poetry">Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so is a wise reprover to the ear of the one who listens.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Whoever shares with a thief<n id="1" /> is his own enemy;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he hears the oath to testify,<n id="3" /> but does not talk.p>