Proverbs 10:1

A Conservative Version

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:1

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel,

Proverbs 29:3

He who loves wisdom delights his father, but he who keeps company with harlots wastes [his] substance.

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 17:21

He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Ecclesiastes 12:9

And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yea, he pondered, and sought out, [and] set in order many proverbs.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Proverbs 25:1

These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

1 Kings 4:32

And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five.

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son [hears] his father's instruction, but a scoffer listens not to rebuke.

Proverbs 27:11

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

Proverbs 29:17

Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest, yea, he will give delight to thy soul.