⁸ Hear, my child, your father’s instruction,
    and do not reject your mother’s teaching,^(A)
9 for they are a fair garland for your head
    and pendants for your neck.^(B)

4 Listen, children, to a father’s instruction,
    and be attentive, that you may gain^[a] insight,^(A)
2 for I give you good precepts:
    do not forsake my teaching.
³ When I was a son with my father,
    tender and my mother’s favorite,^(B)
4 he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
    keep my commandments and live.^(C)

²⁰ A wise child makes a glad father,
    but the foolish despise their mothers.^(A)

²¹ The one who fathers a fool gets trouble;
    the parent of a fool has no joy.^(A)

²⁵ Foolish children are a grief to their father
    and bitterness to her who bore them.^(A)

²⁶ Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother
    are children who cause shame and bring reproach.

²⁰ If you curse father or mother,
    your lamp will go out in utter darkness.^(A)