8  ⁱHear, my son, your father’s instruction,

and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

9  for they are ^ja graceful garland for your head

and ^kpendants for your neck.

1  ^fHear, O sons, a father’s instruction,

and be attentive, that you may ^ggain¹ insight,

2  for I give you good ^hprecepts;

do not forsake my teaching.

3  When I was a son with my father,

ⁱtender, ^jthe only one in the sight of my mother,

4  he ^ktaught me and said to me,

^l“Let your heart hold fast my words;

^mkeep my commandments, and live.

^dA wise son makes a glad father,

^ebut a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

20  ^kA wise son makes a glad father,

but a foolish man despises his mother.

21  He who ⁿsires a fool gets himself sorrow,

and the father of a fool has no joy.

25  ⁿA foolish son is a grief to his father

^tand bitterness to ^uher who bore him.

26  He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother

is ^ua son who brings shame and reproach.

20  ^gIf one curses his father or his mother,

^hhis lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

11  There are those¹ who ^ecurse their fathers

and do not bless their mothers.

12  There are those who are ^fclean in their own eyes

but are not washed of their filth.

17  The eye that ⁿmocks a father

and ^oscorns to obey a mother

will ^pbe picked out by ^qthe ravens of the valley

and eaten by the vultures.