4 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father,
and attend to know understanding.
² For I give you good doctrine,
forsake ye not my law.
³ For I was my father’s son,
tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
⁴ He taught me also, and said unto me,
Let thine heart retain my words:
keep my commandments, and live.

A wise son maketh a glad father:
    but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

²⁹ He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind:
    and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

²⁰ A wise son maketh a glad father:
    but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

² A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame,
    and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

⁶ Children’s children are the crown of old men;
    and the glory of children are their fathers.

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

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

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father:
    and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.