²⁰ My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

¹ Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

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:

¹⁶ Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

⁸ My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

⁹ For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

¹ My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

² Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

³ Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

⁴ Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:

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

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