¹³ A foolish son is his father’s ruin,^(A)
and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.^(B)

¹⁴ A house and wealth are inherited from fathers,^(C)
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

²⁶ The one who plunders his father and evicts his mother
is a disgraceful and shameful son.

²⁷ If you stop listening to correction, my son,
you will stray from the words of knowledge.

²⁰ Whoever curses his father or mother^(A)—
his lamp will go out in deep darkness.^(B)

¹⁵ Foolishness is bound to the heart of a youth;
a rod of discipline will separate it from him.^(A)

²⁸ Don’t move an ancient boundary marker
that your ancestors set up.^(A)