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My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,
And chains about thy neck.

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  1. Proverbs 1:8 Or, teaching

Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
For I give you good doctrine;
Forsake ye not my [a]law.
For I was a son unto my father,
Tender and [b]only beloved in the sight of my mother.
And he taught me, and said unto me:
Let thy heart retain my words;
Keep my commandments, and live;

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  1. Proverbs 4:2 Or, teaching
  2. Proverbs 4:3 Hebrew an only one.

10 The proverbs of Solomon.

A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind;
And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

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20 A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that [a]causeth shame,
And shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.

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  1. Proverbs 17:2 Or, doeth shamefully

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

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

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

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

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26 He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother,
Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

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20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

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