⁸ Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
    and reject not your mother’s teaching;
⁹ for they are a fair garland for your head,
    and pendants for your neck.

4 Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain^[a] insight;
² for I give you good precepts:
    do not forsake my teaching.
³ When I was a son with my father,
    tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
⁴ he taught me, and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
    keep my commandments, and live;

²⁰ A wise son makes a glad father,
    but a foolish man despises his mother.

²¹ A stupid son is a grief to a father;
    and the father of a fool has no joy.

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

²⁶ He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother
    is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

²⁰ If one curses his father or his mother,
    his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.