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Proverbs 10:1

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

THE PROVERBS of Solomon: A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish and self-confident son is the grief of his mother.

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He also originated 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.

THE PROVERBS (truths obscurely expressed, maxims, and parables) of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:

A WISE son heeds [and is the fruit of] his father's instruction and correction, but a scoffer listens not to rebuke.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a self-confident and foolish man despises his mother and puts her to shame.

He who becomes the parent of a [self-confident] fool does it to his sorrow, and the father of [an empty-headed] fool has no joy [in him].

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

A self-confident and foolish son is the [multiplied] calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continual dripping [of water through a chink in the roof].

THESE ARE also the proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied: [I Kings 4:32.]

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me [as having failed in my parental duty]. [Prov. 10:1; 23:15, 24.]

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

Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your heart.

Whoever loves skillful and godly Wisdom rejoices his father, but he who associates with harlots wastes his substance.

And furthermore, because the Preacher was wise, he [Solomon] still taught the people knowledge; and he pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have dominion over all my labor in which I have toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)!




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