A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.
Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.
He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.
A servant who deals wisely has the king's favor, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there. The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”
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