Proverbs 17:25

American King James Version (1999)

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

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

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

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

He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.

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

Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.

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