¹ > Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, Who walks in his ways.

² For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

³ Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of your house; Your children like olive plants, Around your table.

¹⁰ Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

²⁴ One who spares the rod hates his son, But one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

⁸ My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:

⁹ For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

²⁰ A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.

⁴ Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

⁵ doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

⁶ doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

² "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

³ "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."

⁴ You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

²⁵ Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

²⁶ She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

²⁷ She looks well to the ways of her household, And doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

²⁸ Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

²⁹ "Many women do noble things, But you excel them all."

³⁰ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

³¹ Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

³ Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

¹³ As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.