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22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
    and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
23 Get the truth and never sell it;
    also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.

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22 Listen to the one who fathered you,
    and don’t despise your mother in her old age.

23 Purchase truth, but don’t sell it;
    store up[a] wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:23 The Heb. lacks store up

13 My child,[a] eat honey, for it is good,
    and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste.
14 In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul.
    If you find it, you will have a bright future,
    and your hopes will not be cut short.

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  1. 24:13 Hebrew My son; also in 24:21.

13 My son, eat honey, because it’s good for you;[a]
    indeed, drippings from the honeycomb are sweet to your taste;
14 Keep in mind that wisdom is like that for your soul;
    if you find it, there will be a future for you,
        and what you hope for won’t be cut short.

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  1. Proverbs 24:13 The Heb. lacks for you

Evil people don’t understand justice,
    but those who follow the Lord understand completely.

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Evil men don’t understand justice,
    but whoever seeks the Lord understands it all.

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15 To discipline a child produces wisdom,
    but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.

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15 The rod and rebuke bestow wisdom,
    but an undisciplined child[a] brings shame to his mother.

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  1. Proverbs 29:15 Lit. but a child left alone