²⁰ My son,^(A) keep your father’s command
    and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.^(B)
21 Bind them always on your heart;
    fasten them around your neck.^(C)
22 When you walk, they will guide you;
    when you sleep, they will watch over you;
    when you awake, they will speak to you.
²³ For this command is a lamp,
    this teaching is a light,^(D)
and correction and instruction
    are the way to life,^(E)
24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.^(F)

²² Listen to your father, who gave you life,
    and do not despise your mother when she is old.^(A)
23 Buy the truth and do not sell it—
    wisdom, instruction and insight as well.^(B)
24 The father of a righteous child has great joy;
    a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.^(C)
25 May your father and mother rejoice;
    may she who gave you birth be joyful!^(D)

²⁶ My son,^(E) give me your heart
    and let your eyes delight in my ways,^(F)