(The parables of Solomon.)

10 ¶ A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother.

²⁰ ¶ The wise son makes a glad father, but the foolish man despises his mother.

² ¶ A prudent slave shall have rule over a son that causes shame and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

²⁵ ¶ The foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.

¹³ ¶ A foolish son is a pain unto his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

²⁶ ¶ He that steals from his father and chases away his mother is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.