⁸ My son, hear thy ^[a]father’s instruction, and forsake not thy ^[b]mother’s teaching.

⁹ For they shall be ^[c]a comely ornament unto thine head, and as chains for thy neck.

3 1 The words of God giveth life. 5 Trust in God. 7 Fear him. 9 Honor him. 11 Suffer his correction:  21 To them that follow the word of God, all things shall succeed well.

¹ My son, forget not thou my Law, but let thine heart ^(A)keep my commandments.

² For they shall increase the length of thy ^[a]days and the years of life, and thy prosperity.

4 1 Wisdom and her fruits ought to be searched. 14 The way of the wicked must be refused. 20 By the word of God the heart, eyes, and course of life must be guided.

¹ Hear, O ye children, the instruction of a ^[a]father, and give ear to learn understanding.

² For I do give you a good doctrine: therefore forsake ye not my law.

³ For I was my father’s son, tender and dear in the sight of my mother,

⁴ When he ^[b]taught me, and said unto me, Let thine heart hold fast my words: keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.

10 In this Chapter, and all that follow, unto the thirtieth, the wise man exhorteth by divers sentences, which he calleth Parables, to follow virtue, and flee vice: and also showeth what profit cometh of wisdom, and what hindrance proceedeth of foolishness.

THE PARABLE OF SOLOMON.

¹ A wise ^(A)son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is an heaviness to his mother.

²² The good man shall give inheritance unto his children’s children: and the ^[a]riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.

^20 (A)A wise son rejoiceth the father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

⁶ Children’s children are the crown of the elders: and the glory of the children are their fathers.

²¹ He that begetteth a fool, getteth himself sorrow, and the father of a fool can have no joy.

²⁵ A foolish son is a grief unto his father, and a ^(A)heaviness to her that bare him.

^13 (A)A foolish son is the calamity of his father, ^(B)and the contentions of a wife are like a continual ^[a]dropping.