Whoever mistreats a father or drives away a mother, is a shameless and disgraceful child.
The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise son gives his father joy, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.
A son who gathers in summer is a credit; a son who slumbers during harvest, a disgrace.
A wise servant will rule over an unworthy son, and will share the inheritance of the children.
A foolish son is vexation to his father, and bitter sorrow to her who bore him.
My son, stop attending to correction; start straying from words of knowledge.
Happy those who always fear; but those who harden their hearts fall into evil.
Whoever defrauds father or mother and says, “It is no sin,” is a partner to a brigand.
Whoever heeds instruction is a wise son, but whoever joins with wastrels disgraces his father.
There are some who curse their fathers, and do not bless their mothers.
The eye that mocks a father, or scorns the homage due a mother, Will be plucked out by brook ravens; devoured by a brood of vultures.
But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’