Shun Evil Counsel

(A)My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not forsake the law of your mother;
For they will be a (B)graceful ornament on your head,
And chains about your neck.

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My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother;

for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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Security in Wisdom

Hear, (A)my children, the instruction of a father,
And give attention to know understanding;
For I give you good doctrine:
Do not forsake my law.
When I was my father’s son,
(B)Tender and the only one in the sight of my mother,
(C)He also taught me, and said to me:
“Let your heart retain my words;
(D)Keep my commands, and live.

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Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and be attentive to know understanding.

For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my law.

For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

He taught me also and said unto me, “Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments and live.

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Wise Sayings of Solomon

10 The proverbs of (A)Solomon:

(B)A wise son makes a glad father,
But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

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10 A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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29 He who troubles his own house (A)will inherit the wind,
And the fool will be (B)servant to the wise of heart.

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29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

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20 (A)A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish man despises his mother.

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20 A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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A wise servant will rule over (A)a son who causes shame,
And will share an inheritance among the brothers.

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A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

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(A)Children’s children are the crown of old men,
And the glory of children is their father.

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Children’s children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children are their fathers.

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21 He who begets a scoffer does so to his sorrow,
And the father of a fool has no joy.

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21 He that begetteth a fool doeth so to his sorrow, and the father of a fool hath no joy.

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25 A (A)foolish son is a grief to his father,
And bitterness to her who bore him.

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25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

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13 (A)A foolish son is the ruin of his father,
(B)And the contentions of a wife are a continual [a]dripping.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:13 Irritation

13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

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26 He who mistreats his father and chases away his mother
Is (A)a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

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26 He that afflicteth his father and chaseth away his mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

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20 (A)Whoever curses his father or his mother,
(B)His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

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20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

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