Proverbs 1:8-9
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The Prologue: Embrace Wisdom
8 My son, hear the instruction of your father,
and do not forsake the teaching of your mother;
9 for they will be a garland of grace on your head,
and chains about your neck.
Proverbs 4:1-4
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Wisdom Is Supreme
4 Hear, O children, the instruction of a father,
and attend to know understanding.
2 For I give you good precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
3 For I was my father’s son,
tender and the only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 He also taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart retain my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 10:1
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The Proverbs of Solomon
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
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20 A wise son makes a father glad,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 17:21
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21 He who fathers a fool does it to his sorrow,
and the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
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25 A foolish son is a grief to his father,
and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 19:26
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26 He who mistreats his father and chases away his mother
is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Proverbs 20:20
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20 Whoever curses his father or his mother,
his lamp will be put out in obscure darkness.
Proverbs 30:11-12
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11 There is a generation that curses their father,
and does not bless its mother.
12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,
and yet is not washed from its filthiness.
Proverbs 30:17
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17 The eye that mocks at his father,
and despises to obey his mother,
the ravens of the valley will pick it out,
and the young eagles will eat it.
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