The Enticement of Sinners

(A)Hear, my son, your father's instruction,
    and forsake not your mother's teaching,
for they are (B)a graceful garland for your head
    and (C)pendants for your neck.

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A Father's Wise Instruction

(A)Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
    and be attentive, that you may (B)gain[a] insight,
for I give you good (C)precepts;
    do not forsake my teaching.
When I was a son with my father,
    (D)tender, (E)the only one in the sight of my mother,
he (F)taught me and said to me,
(G)“Let your heart hold fast my words;
    (H)keep my commandments, and live.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:1 Hebrew know

The Proverbs of Solomon

10 (A)The proverbs of Solomon.

(B)A wise son makes a glad father,
    (C)but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

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20 (A)A wise son makes a glad father,
    but a foolish man despises his mother.

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21 He who (A)sires a fool gets himself sorrow,
    and the father of a fool has no joy.

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25 (A)A foolish son is a grief to his father
    (B)and bitterness to (C)her who bore him.

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26 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother
    is (A)a son who brings shame and reproach.

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20 (A)If one curses his father or his mother,
    (B)his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

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11 There are those[a] who (A)curse their fathers
    and do not bless their mothers.
12 There are those who are (B)clean in their own eyes
    but are not washed of their filth.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:11 Hebrew There is a generation; also verses 12, 13, 14

17 The eye that (A)mocks a father
    and (B)scorns to obey a mother
will (C)be picked out by (D)the ravens of the valley
    and eaten by the vultures.

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