Good News Translation
for the Lord has given fathers authority over their children and given children the obligation to obey their mothers.

New Revised Standard Version
For the Lord honors a father above his children, and he confirms a mother’s right over her children.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord has told children to honor and obey their parents.

New American Bible
For the Lord sets a father in honor over his children and confirms a mother’s authority over her sons.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Children, hear the judgment of your father, and so do that you may be saved.

Children, hear the judgment of your father, and so do that you may be saved.

Sirach 2:23
For according to his greatness, so also is his mercy with him.

Sirach 3:1
The sons of wisdom are the church of the just: and their generation, obedience and love.

Sirach 3:3
For God hath made the father honourable to the children: and seeking the judgment of the mothers, hath confirmed it upon the children.

Sirach 3:4
He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon for his sins by prayer, and shall refrain himself from them, and shall be heard in the prayer of days.