¹⁵ My son, if your heart is ^(A)wise,
My own heart also will be glad;
¹⁶ And my ^[a]inmost being will exult
When your lips speak ^(B)upright things.

^22 (A)Listen to your father who begot you,
And ^(B)do not despise your mother when she is old.

²⁴ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And ^(A)he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
²⁵ Let your ^(B)father and your mother be glad,
And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.