The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 1, Verse 5

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

King James Version

A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

American Standard Version

That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

New English Translation

(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)

World English Bible

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: