²⁰ My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

¹⁶ Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.

⁸ My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:

⁹ For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.

¹ My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

² Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

²² Listen to your father who gave you life, And don't despise your mother when she is old.

¹¹ There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.