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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Avoid the Path of the Violent

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,(A)
for they will be a garland(B) of favor on your head
and pendants[a] around your neck.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:9 Lit chains

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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A Father’s Example

Listen, sons, to a father’s discipline,(A)
and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,
for I am giving you good instruction.(B)
Don’t abandon my teaching.
When I was a son with my father,
tender and precious to my mother,
he taught me and said,
“Your heart must hold on to my words.
Keep my commands and live.(C)

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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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A Collection of Solomon’s Proverbs

10 Solomon’s proverbs:(A)

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.(B)

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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 brings joy to his father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.(A)

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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 A man fathers a fool to his own sorrow;
the father of a fool has no joy.(A)

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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 grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.(A)

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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 The one who plunders his father and evicts his mother
is a disgraceful and shameful son.

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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 Whoever curses his father or mother(A)
his lamp will go out in deep darkness.(B)

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11 There is a generation that curses its (A)father,
And does not bless its mother.
12 There is a generation (B)that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.

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11 There is a generation that curses its father
and does not bless its mother.(A)
12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,(B)
yet is not washed from its filth.

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17 (A)The eye that mocks his father,
And scorns obedience to his mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.

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17 As for the eye that ridicules a father(A)
and despises obedience to a mother,
may ravens of the valley pluck it out
and young vultures eat it.(B)

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