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

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

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

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

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

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.