Proverbs 23:25

A Conservative Version

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

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

And her neighbors and her kinfolk heard that Lord magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

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

My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways.

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

My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine.