Proverbs 1:8-9
World English Bible
8 My son, listen to your father’s instruction,
and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
9 for they will be a garland to grace your head,
and chains around your neck.
Proverbs 1:8-9
American Standard Version
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:
9 For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,
And chains about thy neck.
Notas al pie
- Proverbs 1:8 Or, teaching
Proverbs 4:1-4
World English Bible
4 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction.
Pay attention and know understanding;
2 for I give you sound learning.
Don’t forsake my law.
3 For I was a son to my father,
tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
4 He taught me, and said to me:
“Let your heart retain my words.
Keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 4:1-4
American Standard Version
4 Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
2 For I give you good doctrine;
Forsake ye not my [a]law.
3 For I was a son unto my father,
Tender and [b]only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 And he taught me, and said unto me:
Let thy heart retain my words;
Keep my commandments, and live;
Notas al pie
- Proverbs 4:2 Or, teaching
- Proverbs 4:3 Hebrew an only one.
Proverbs 10:1
World English Bible
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a glad father;
but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Proverbs 10:1
American Standard Version
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
World English Bible
20 A wise son makes a father glad,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
American Standard Version
20 A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Proverbs 17:21
World English Bible
21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves.
The father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:21
American Standard Version
21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow;
And the father of a fool hath no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
World English Bible
25 A foolish son brings grief to his father,
and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 17:25
American Standard Version
25 A foolish son is a grief to his father,
And bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs 19:26
World English Bible
26 He who robs his father and drives away his mother
is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Proverbs 19:26
American Standard Version
26 He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother,
Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
Proverbs 20:20
World English Bible
20 Whoever curses his father or his mother,
his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Proverbs 20:20
American Standard Version
20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Proverbs 30:11-12
World English Bible
11 There is a generation that curses their father,
and doesn’t bless their mother.
12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes,
yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Proverbs 30:11-12
American Standard Version
11 There is a generation that curse their father,
And bless not their mother.
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes,
And yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Proverbs 30:17
World English Bible
17 “The eye that mocks at his father,
and scorns obedience to his mother:
the ravens of the valley shall pick it out,
the young eagles shall eat it.
Proverbs 30:17
American Standard Version
17 The eye that mocketh at his father,
And despiseth to obey his mother,
The ravens of [a]the valley shall pick it out,
And the [b]young eagles shall eat it.
Notas al pie
- Proverbs 30:17 Or, the brook
- Proverbs 30:17 Or, vultures
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