Proverbs 17:25

A Conservative Version

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

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

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

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

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

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

And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.

Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her who bore thee rejoice.