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Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:

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20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:20 Or, teaching

13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father;
And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers;
But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

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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 begat thee,
And despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not;
Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
25 Let thy father and thy mother be glad,
And let her that bare thee rejoice.

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Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father;
But he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his substance.

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