Proverbs 17:25

American Standard Version (1901)

A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

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The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh 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 maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.

The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.