The words of King Lemuel, an oracle that his mother taught him:

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.

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

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.

A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.

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

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

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.

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

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother – the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

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

It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.

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