Proverbs 23:25

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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

And her neighbors and her kinsfolk heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her; and they rejoiced with her.

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

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh 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: