Family Verses

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

For I was my father's son, tender and only {beloved} in the sight of my mother.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, {and} bow thine ear to my understanding:

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, {if} thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. {and make...: or, so shalt thou prevail with thy friend}

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: