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.

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

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.

²⁶ A son who assaults his father ⌞and⌟ who drives away his mother
brings shame and disgrace.

¹¹ A certain kind of person curses his father
and does not bless his mother.
¹² A certain kind of person thinks he is pure
but is not washed from his own feces.^[a]

¹⁷ The eye that makes fun of a father and hates to obey a mother
will be plucked out by ravens in the valley and eaten by young vultures.