A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son [is] an affliction to his mother.
A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.
Whoso [is] loving mirth [is] a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.
A treasure to be desired, and oil, [Is] in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.
My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,
Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.
Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled [with] poverty.
Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.
For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
‘And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;
but when thy son — this one who did devour thy living with harlots — came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.