⁸ Hear, my child, your father’s instruction,
    and do not reject your mother’s teaching,^(A)
9 for they are a fair garland for your head
    and pendants for your neck.^(B)

3 My child, do not forget my teaching,
    but let your heart keep my commandments,^(A)
2 for length of days and years of life
    and abundant welfare they will give you.^(B)

4 Listen, children, to a father’s instruction,
    and be attentive, that you may gain^[a] insight,^(A)
2 for I give you good precepts:
    do not forsake my teaching.
³ When I was a son with my father,
    tender and my mother’s favorite,^(B)
4 he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
    keep my commandments and live.^(C)

²² The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children,
    but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.^(A)