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Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction.
    Pay attention and know understanding;

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

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13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father.
    A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

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14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
    but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

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28 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
    which your fathers have set up.

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22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
    and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
    Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous has great joy.
    Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad!
    Let her who bore you rejoice!

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Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father;
    but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

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