The Enticement of Sinners

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

A Father's Wise Instruction

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,

When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,

Warnings Against Adultery

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

The Proverbs of Solomon

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

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

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

He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.

Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.

He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.