Proverbs 17:25

Modern King James Version

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

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And it was told to 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 sorrow of his mother.

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

He who fathers a fool does it to his sorrow; the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a wife is a never-ending dripping.

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

The rod and rebuke give wisdom, but a boy sent off causes shame to his mother.