^20 (A)My son, keep your father's commandment,
    ^(B)and forsake not your mother's teaching.

4 ^(A)Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
    and be attentive, that you may ^(B)gain^[a] insight,
² for I give you good ^(C)precepts;
    do not forsake my teaching.

^8 (A)Hear, my son, your father's instruction,
    and forsake not your mother's teaching,
⁹ for they are ^(B)a graceful garland for your head
    and ^(C)pendants for your neck.

13 A wise son hears his father's instruction,
    but ^(A)a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.