⁸ My child, may you keep^[a] your father’s instruction,
    and do not reject your mother’s teachings,
⁹ for they are a garland of favor for your head,
    and pendants for your neck.

4 Children, listen to the instruction of a father,
    and be attentive in order to know insight.
² For I have given you good instruction;
    do not forsake my teaching.
³ When I was a son to my father,
    tender and alone before my mother,
⁴ he taught me and said to me,
    “May your heart hold fast to my words;
    guard my commandments and live.

10 The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise child makes a father glad,
    but a foolish child grieves his mother.

²⁰ A child of wisdom will make a father glad,
    but a foolish person,^[a] he despises his mother.

²¹ He who begets a fool, there is trouble for him;
    the father of a fool will not rejoice.

²⁵ A grief to his father is the child of a fool,
    and bitterness to her who bore him.

²⁶ He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother,
    is a child who causes shame and brings reproach.

²⁰ He who curses his father and his mother,
    his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.^[a]

¹¹ There is a generation that will curse its father,
    and its mother it will not bless.
¹² There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,
    but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks a father
    and scorns the obedience of a mother—
the ravens of the valley will peck it out,
    and the offspring of vultures will eat it.