He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

"Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.