⁸ So, my son, pay attention to your father’s guidance,
    and do not ignore what your mother taught you—
⁹ Wear their wisdom as a badge of honor and maturity,
    as fine jewelry around your neck.

4 Gather, children, to hear your father’s instruction.
    Pay close attention so you will understand,
² For I am passing down to you important precepts.
    Do not abandon these valuable life lessons.
³ Back when I was young—the very image of my father,
    and yet from my mother’s view, still her only boy—
⁴ My father, with his years of experience, became my teacher.

Father: Son, grab on to every word I say to you—hold them close—
        stay true to my instructions as you live, and they will serve you well.

10 The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise son makes his father glad,
    but a foolish one fills his mother with sorrow.

¹¹ There is a kind of person who curses his father
    and pronounces no blessing upon his mother;
¹² A kind of person who is without fault in his own estimation
    but has not been scrubbed clean of his own sordidness;

¹⁷ One who derides his father
    and fails to honor his mother in old age
Will die in contempt: his eyes will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley
    and eaten by the young vultures when his unburied body lies on the trash heap.