Proverbs 29:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: But he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his substance.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: But he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Whoever loves skillful and godly Wisdom rejoices his father, but he who associates with harlots wastes his substance.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; But he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his substance.

Common English Bible

³ A man who loves wisdom makes his father rejoice, but one who spends time with prostitutes destroys riches.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ The man who loves wisdom rejoices his father. But whoever nurtures promiscuous women will lose his substance.

Proverbs 29:3 Cross References

Proverbs 27:11

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answer him that reproacheth me

Luke 15:30

but when this thy son came, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Luke 15:13

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

Proverbs 28:7

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: But he that is a companion of gluttonous men shameth his father.

Proverbs 6:26

For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

Proverbs 21:17

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Proverbs 28:19

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: But he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Proverbs 23:15

My son, if thine heart be wise, My heart shall be glad, even mine:

Proverbs 21:20

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swalloweth it up.