⁸ My child, may you keep^[a] your father’s instruction,
    and do not reject your mother’s teachings,
⁹ for they are a garland of favor for your head,
    and pendants for your neck.

4 Children, listen to the instruction of a father,
    and be attentive in order to know insight.
² For I have given you good instruction;
    do not forsake my teaching.
³ When I was a son to my father,
    tender and alone before my mother,
⁴ he taught me and said to me,
    “May your heart hold fast to my words;
    guard my commandments and live.

10 The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise child makes a father glad,
    but a foolish child grieves his mother.

²⁰ A child of wisdom will make a father glad,
    but a foolish person,^[a] he despises his mother.

²¹ He who begets a fool, there is trouble for him;
    the father of a fool will not rejoice.