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

and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

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

and be attentive, that you may ^ggain¹ insight,

22  ^cListen to your father who gave you life,

^dand do not despise your mother when she is old.

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.