⁸ Listen, my son, to your father’s discipline,
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching,
⁹ because they are a garland of grace for your head.
They are jewelry for your neck.

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

²⁰ A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish person despises his mother.

²¹ The man who fathers a fool has grief,
and the father of an arrogant fool will have no joy.

²⁵ A foolish son is an aggravation to his father
and bitterness to the woman who bore him.

²⁶ A son who attacks his father and chases away his mother
brings shame and disgrace.

²⁰ The person who curses his father and his mother—
his lamp will be snuffed out in total darkness.

¹¹ There is a type of person who curses his father
and does not bless his mother.
¹² This person is pure in his own eyes,
but he is not washed from his filth.