¹ Blessed is every one that feareth Jehovah, That walketh in his ways.

² For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

³ Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

¹⁰ A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

²⁴ He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

⁹ For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.

²⁰ A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

⁴ Love suffereth long, `and' is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

⁵ doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

⁶ rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷ beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

⁸ Love never faileth: but whether `there be' prophecies, they shall be done away; whether `there be' tongues, they shall cease; whether `there be' knowledge, it shall be done away.

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

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

² Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

³ that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

⁴ And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

²⁵ Strength and dignity are her clothing; And she laugheth at the time to come.

²⁶ She openeth her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue.

²⁷ She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.

²⁸ Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husband `also', and he praiseth her, `saying':

²⁹ Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.

³⁰ Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; `But' a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

³¹ Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.

³ Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; `And' the fruit of the womb is `his' reward.

¹³ As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.