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My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,
And chains about thy neck.

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  1. Proverbs 1:8 Or, teaching

Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
For I give you good doctrine;
Forsake ye not my [a]law.
For I was a son unto my father,
Tender and [b]only beloved in the sight of my mother.
And he taught me, and said unto me:
Let thy heart retain my words;
Keep my commandments, and live;

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  1. Proverbs 4:2 Or, teaching
  2. Proverbs 4:3 Hebrew an only one.

10 The proverbs of Solomon.

A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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20 A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow;
And the father of a fool hath no joy.

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25 A foolish son is a grief to his father,
And bitterness to her that bare him.

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26 He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother,
Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

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20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

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11 There is a generation that curse their father,
And bless not their mother.
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes,
And yet are not washed from their filthiness.

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17 The eye that mocketh at his father,
And despiseth to obey his mother,
The ravens of [a]the valley shall pick it out,
And the [b]young eagles shall eat it.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:17 Or, the brook
  2. Proverbs 30:17 Or, vultures