39. [The docile son.]

"If the son of a man receive what his father saith, no plan of his shall

fail. [He whom] thou teachest as thy son, or the listener that is

successful in the heart of the nobles, he guideth his mouth according

to what he hath been told. _He that beholdeth is as he that obeyeth_,

i. e., _a son_[304]; his ways are distinguished. He faileth that

entereth without hearing. He that knoweth, on the next day is

established; he who is ignorant is crushed."[305]

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