A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.
A self-confident and foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
A foolish son is irritating to his father and bitter to her who gave birth to him.
A foolish son is the anger of the father and the grief of the mother who conceived him.
A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.
And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish man despiseth his mother.
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: And the father of a fool hath no joy.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.