²⁴ The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

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

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

¹⁵ My son, if your heart is wise, Then my heart will be glad, even mine:

¹⁶ Yes, my heart will rejoice, When your lips speak what is right.

²⁰ Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

⁹ yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

³ Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; But a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

⁹ Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.

¹ Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

² I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

³ and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

⁴⁸ Also thus said the king, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.