⁸ Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
    and reject not your mother’s teaching;
⁹ for they are a fair garland for your head,
    and pendants for your neck.

4 Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain^[a] insight;
² for I give you good precepts:
    do not forsake my teaching.
³ When I was a son with my father,
    tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
⁴ he taught me, and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
    keep my commandments, and live;

²⁹ He who troubles his household will inherit wind,
    and the fool will be servant to the wise.

²⁰ A wise son makes a glad father,
    but a foolish man despises his mother.

² A slave who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully,
    and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.

⁶ Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,
    and the glory of sons is their fathers.

²¹ A stupid son is a grief to a father;
    and the father of a fool has no joy.

²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father
    and bitterness to her who bore him.

¹³ A foolish son is ruin to his father,
    and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.