Proverbs 1:8-9
English Standard Version
The Enticement of Sinners
8 (A)Hear, my son, your father's instruction,
and forsake not your mother's teaching,
9 for they are (B)a graceful garland for your head
and (C)pendants for your neck.
Proverbs 1:8-9
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Avoid the Path of the Violent
8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,(A)
9 for they will be a garland(B) of grace on your head
and a gold chain around your neck.(C)
Proverbs 4:1-4
English Standard Version
A Father's Wise Instruction
4 (A)Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
and be attentive, that you may (B)gain[a] insight,
2 for I give you good (C)precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
(D)tender, (E)the only one in the sight of my mother,
4 he (F)taught me and said to me,
(G)“Let your heart hold fast my words;
(H)keep my commandments, and live.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:1 Hebrew know
Proverbs 4:1-4
Holman Christian Standard Bible
A Father’s Example
4 Listen, my sons, to a father’s discipline,(A)
and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,
2 for I am giving you good instruction.(B)
Don’t abandon my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
tender and precious to my mother,
4 he taught me and said:
“Your heart must hold on to my words.
Keep my commands and live.(C)
Proverbs 10:1
English Standard Version
Proverbs 10:1
Holman Christian Standard Bible
A Collection of Solomon’s Proverbs
10 Solomon’s proverbs:(A)
A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.(B)
Proverbs 15:20
English Standard Version
20 (A)A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
Holman Christian Standard Bible
20 A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.(A)
Proverbs 17:21
English Standard Version
21 He who (A)sires a fool gets himself sorrow,
and the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:21
Holman Christian Standard Bible
21 A man fathers a fool to his own sorrow;
the father of a fool has no joy.(A)
Proverbs 17:25
English Standard Version
Proverbs 17:25
Holman Christian Standard Bible
25 A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.(A)
Proverbs 19:26
English Standard Version
26 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother
is (A)a son who brings shame and reproach.
Proverbs 19:26
Holman Christian Standard Bible
26 The one who assaults his father and evicts his mother
is a disgraceful and shameful son.
Proverbs 20:20
English Standard Version
Proverbs 20:20
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Proverbs 30:11-12
English Standard Version
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.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 30:11 Hebrew There is a generation; also verses 12, 13, 14
Proverbs 30:11-12
Holman Christian Standard Bible
11 There is a generation that curses its father
and does not bless its mother.(A)
12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,(B)
yet is not washed from its filth.
Proverbs 30:17
English Standard Version
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.
Proverbs 30:17
Holman Christian Standard Bible
17 As for the eye that ridicules a father(A)
and despises obedience to a mother,
may ravens of the valley pluck it out
and young vultures eat it.(B)
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