Proverbs 1:8-9
New American Standard Bible
The Enticement of Sinners
8 (A)Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
And (B)do not ignore your mother’s teaching;
9 For they are a (C)graceful wreath for your head
And (D)necklaces for your neck.
Proverbs 1:8-9
Lexham English Bible
Lecture Against Gang Behavior
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.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:8 Or “obey,” or “hear”
Proverbs 4:1-4
New American Standard Bible
A Father’s Instruction
4 Listen, my sons, to the (A)instruction of a father,
And (B)pay attention so that you may [a]gain understanding,
2 For I give you good (C)teaching;
(D)Do not abandon my [b]instruction.
3 When I was a son to my father,
(E)Tender and (F)the only son in the sight of my mother,
4 He (G)taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart (H)take hold of my words;
(I)Keep my commandments and live;
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:1 Lit know
- Proverbs 4:2 Or law
Proverbs 4:1-4
Lexham English Bible
The Father’s Wisdom
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.
Proverbs 10:1
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Proverbs 10:1
Lexham English Bible
Proverbs of Solomon
10 The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise child makes a father glad,
but a foolish child grieves his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
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Proverbs 15:20
Lexham English Bible
20 A child of wisdom will make a father glad,
but a foolish person,[a] he despises his mother.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 15:20 Literally “foolishness of humankind”
Proverbs 17:21
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21 He who (A)fathers a fool does so to his sorrow,
And the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:21
Lexham English Bible
21 He who begets a fool, there is trouble for him;
the father of a fool will not rejoice.
Proverbs 17:25
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Proverbs 17:25
Lexham English Bible
25 A grief to his father is the child of a fool,
and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 19:26
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26 He (A)who assaults his father and drives his mother away
Is a shameful and disgraceful son.
Proverbs 19:26
Lexham English Bible
26 He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother,
is a child who causes shame and brings reproach.
Proverbs 20:20
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Proverbs 20:20
Lexham English Bible
20 He who curses his father and his mother,
his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 20:20 Literally “in a pupil of darkness”
Proverbs 30:11-12
New American Standard Bible
11 There is a [a]kind of person who (A)curses his father
And does not bless his mother.
12 There is a [b]kind who is (B)pure in his own eyes,
Yet is not washed from his filthiness.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 30:11 Or generation
- Proverbs 30:12 Or generation
Proverbs 30:11-12
Lexham English Bible
11 There is a generation that will curse its father,
and its mother it will not bless.
12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,
but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed.
Proverbs 30:17
New American Standard Bible
17 The eye that (A)mocks a father
And [a](B)scorns a mother,
The (C)ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young (D)eagles will eat it.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 30:17 Lit despises to obey
Proverbs 30:17
Lexham English Bible
17 The eye that mocks a father
and scorns the obedience of a mother—
the ravens of the valley will peck it out,
and the offspring of vultures will eat it.
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