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My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother;

for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life

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10 A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

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13 A wise son heareth his father’s instruction, but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

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A fool despiseth his father’s instruction, but he that heedeth reproof is prudent.

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20 A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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Children’s children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children are their fathers.

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17 A friend is loving at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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21 He that begetteth a fool doeth so to his sorrow, and the father of a fool hath no joy.

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

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19 An offended brother is harder to be won back than a stronghold city, and his contentions are like the bars of a castle.

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13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

14 House and riches are the inheritance from fathers, and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

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26 He that afflicteth his father and chaseth away his mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth thee to err from the words of knowledge.

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20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

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15 Foolishness is bound into the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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28 Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.

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22 Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.

25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.

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As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man who wandereth from his place.

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10 Thine own friend and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity; for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

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Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son, but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

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24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother and saith, “It is no transgression,” the same is the companion of a destroyer.

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Whoso loveth wisdom maketh his father rejoice, but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

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17 The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

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