8  ⁱHear, my son, your father’s instruction,

and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

9  for they are ^ja graceful garland for your head

and ^kpendants for your neck.

1  ^yMy son, do not forget my teaching,

^zbut let your heart keep my commandments,

2  for ^alength of days and years of life

and ^bpeace they will add to you.

1  ^fHear, O sons, a father’s instruction,

and be attentive, that you may ^ggain¹ insight,

2  for I give you good ^hprecepts;

do not forsake my teaching.

3  When I was a son with my father,

ⁱtender, ^jthe only one in the sight of my mother,

4  he ^ktaught me and said to me,

^l“Let your heart hold fast my words;

^mkeep my commandments, and live.

^dA wise son makes a glad father,

^ebut a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

22  ^zA good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,

but ^athe sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

20  ^kA wise son makes a glad father,

but a foolish man despises his mother.

6  ^uGrandchildren are ^vthe crown of the aged,

and the glory of children is their fathers.

21  He who ⁿsires a fool gets himself sorrow,

and the father of a fool has no joy.

25  ⁿA foolish son is a grief to his father

^tand bitterness to ^uher who bore him.

13  ^tA foolish son is ruin to his father,

and ^ua wife’s quarreling is ^va continual dripping of rain.

18  ^fDiscipline your son, for there is hope;

do not set your heart on ^gputting him to death.

26  He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother

is ^ua son who brings shame and reproach.

7  The righteous who ^jwalks in his integrity—

^kblessed are his children after him!

6  ^wTrain up a child in the way he should go;

even when he is old he will not depart from it.

15  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,

but ⁿthe rod of discipline drives it far from him.

13  Do not withhold ⁿdiscipline from a child;

^oif you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

14  If you strike him with the rod,

you will ^psave his soul from Sheol.

15  ^vThe rod and reproof give wisdom,

but a child left to himself ^wbrings shame to his mother.

17  ^yDiscipline your son, and he will give you rest;

he will give delight to your heart.