The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.