A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.

Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.

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

For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.

The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but whoever associates with prostitutes wastes his wealth.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.

The one who robs his father and mother and says, “There is no transgression,” is a companion to the one who destroys.