¹ A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

³ A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.

¹⁵ The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

¹⁵ My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

¹⁶ And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

²⁰ A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

¹ The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

⁹ And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.

¹⁹ And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

¹ These are more wise sayings of Solomon, copied out by the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah.

²⁴ The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

²⁵ Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

¹³ A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

²¹ He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

³² He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.