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Fatherly Advice

Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain[a] insight;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:1 Heb know

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
    and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

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13 A foolish son is ruin to his father,
    and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

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14 House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
    but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

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

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22 Hearken to your father who begot you,
    and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy truth, and do not sell it;
    buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
    he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
25 Let your father and mother be glad,
    let her who bore you rejoice.

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He who loves wisdom makes his father glad,
    but one who keeps company with harlots squanders his substance.

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