He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.
A servant who does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.
He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.
He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.
There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.