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.

⁴ Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.

⁵ May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, And may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is{TR adds "good and"} acceptable in the sight of God.

²¹ A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

⁵² And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

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

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.

¹⁴ But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

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

⁷ It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his children begging for bread.

²⁶ All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

²⁷ Depart from evil, and do good; Live securely forever.

¹ Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

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

⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth.

⁵ Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

³ For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:

⁴ and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

⁵ One shall say, I am Yahweh's; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand to Yahweh, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.

⁷ A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

¹³ All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.

¹¹ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

³⁸ and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

³⁹ and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

⁴⁰ and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

¹³ Like a father has compassion on his children, So Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

¹ Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men; The glory of children are their parents.

¹⁵ The rod of correction gives wisdom, But a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

⁵ Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.

¹³ For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

¹⁴ I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

¹⁵ My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there were none of them.

¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

¹² Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, Our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

¹⁰ I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

²¹ Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

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

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

¹³ Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

⁴ We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, His strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

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.

⁴ Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.

² His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.