bad children

¹⁸If a man produces a disobedient and reckless son, who will not listen to the orders of his father or mother, and, having been corrected, shows contempt for obedience: ¹⁹they shall take him and lead him to the elders of the city and to the gate of judgment. ²⁰And they shall say to them: ‘This our son is reckless and disobedient. He shows contempt when listening to our admonitions. He occupies himself with carousing, and self-indulgence, and feasting.’ ²¹Then the people of the city shall stone him to death. And he shall die, so that you may take away the evil from your midst. And so may all of Israel, upon hearing it, be very afraid.

¹⁵The rod and its correction distribute wisdom. But the child who is left to his own will, brings shame to his mother.

¹⁵Foolishness has been bound to the heart of a child, and a rod of discipline shall cause it to flee.

²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

²⁴He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

¹⁸Teach your son; do not despair. But do not set your soul toward putting him to death.

²⁵A foolish son is the anger of the father and the grief of the mother who conceived him.

¹²Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.

¹⁵Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. ²Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise: ³so that it may be well with you, and so that you may have a long life upon the earth.

¹⁷The eye of one who mocks his father and who despises the childbearing of his mother, let the ravens of the torrent tear it out, and let the sons of the eagles consume it.

¹¹A child may be understood by his interests: whether his works may be clean and upright.

²Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

¹A wise son gladdens the father. Yet truly, a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

¹¹Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. ²Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise: ³so that it may be well with you, and so that you may have a long life upon the earth. ⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

⁴‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother shall die a death.’

¹⁷Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother shall die a death.

¹³Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.