Proverbs 19:20
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Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
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The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.