Proverbs 17:25

Modern English Version

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

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It was told to Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”

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

A wise son delights his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

He who begets a fool begets grief, and the father of a fool is bereft of joy.

A foolish son is the ruin of his father, and the quarrels of a wife are a constant dripping.

Let your father and your mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.