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  ^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.

29  Whoever ^utroubles his own household will ^vinherit the wind,

and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

20  ^kA wise son makes a glad father,

but a foolish man despises his mother.

2  A servant who deals wisely will rule over ⁿa son who acts shamefully

and ^owill share the inheritance as one of the brothers.

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.

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

is ^ua son who brings shame and reproach.

20  ^gIf one curses his father or his mother,

^hhis lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

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

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

22  ^cListen to your father who gave you life,

^dand do not despise your mother when she is old.

23  ^eBuy truth, and do not sell it;

buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

24  ^fThe father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;

he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

25  ^fLet your father and mother be glad;

let ^gher who bore you rejoice.

24  Whoever robs his father or his mother

and says, “That is no transgression,”

is ^ra companion to a man who destroys.