⁸ My son,
listen to your father’s discipline,
and do not neglect your mother’s teachings,
⁹ because discipline and teachings
are a graceful garland on your head
and a ⌞golden⌟ chain around your neck.

4 Sons,
listen to ⌞your⌟ father’s discipline,
and pay attention in order to gain understanding.
² After all, I have taught you well.
Do not abandon my teachings.
³ When I was a boy ⌞learning⌟ from my father,
when I was a tender and only child of my mother,
⁴ they used to teach me and say to me,
“Cling to my words wholeheartedly.
Obey my commands so that you may live.

A wise son makes his father happy,
but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

²⁹ Whoever brings trouble upon his family inherits ⌞only⌟ wind,
and that stubborn fool becomes a slave to the wise in heart.

²⁰ A wise son makes his father happy,
but a foolish child despises its mother.

² A wise slave will become master over a son who acts shamefully,
and he will share the inheritance with the brothers.

⁶ Grandchildren are the crown of grandparents,
and parents are the glory of their children.

²¹ The parent of a fool has grief,
and the father of a godless fool has no joy.

²⁵ A foolish son is a heartache to his father
and bitter grief to his mother.

¹³ A foolish son ruins his father,
and a quarreling woman is like constantly dripping water.