¹¹ Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

¹ Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son `is' an affliction to his mother.

⁴² And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, For I have trusted in Thy word.

¹⁵ My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

¹⁶ And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.

⁴ I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;

¹⁹ I, Paul did write with my hand, I -- I will repay; that I may not say that also thyself, besides, to me thou dost owe.

²⁰ Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;

⁷ for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

¹⁸ And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

¹⁹ And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.

²⁰ And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

²¹ For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

³ A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.

²⁴ The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

²⁵ Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

²⁰ A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So `are' the sons of the young men.

⁵ O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!