Let thy father and thy mother be glad,\par\tab And let her that bare thee rejoice.
A foolish son is a grief to his father,\par\tab And bitterness to her that bare him.
And her neighbors and her kinsfolk heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her; and they rejoiced with her.
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad,\par\tab That I may answer him that reproacheth me.
My son, give me thy heart;\par\tab And let thine eyes delight in my ways.
The proverbs of Solomon.\par\par\tab A wise son maketh a glad father;\par\tab But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
My son, if thy heart be wise,\par\tab My heart will be glad, even mine: