³ Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

¹¹ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

³⁰ But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

²⁰ A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

10 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

¹³ And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

⁷ Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

²⁶ For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.

¹⁷ He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

⁹ Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;