²⁶ He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

¹⁷ The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

² A servant who does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.

⁵ He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

³⁰ But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

¹² And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.

¹³ And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

¹⁴ And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need.

¹⁵ And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.

¹⁶ And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.

¹¹ There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

²⁴ He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

¹⁴ Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.

⁷ He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

²² Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

²³ Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

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.

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

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

¹⁸ If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

¹⁹ Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

²⁰ And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.

²¹ Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.