Proverbs 17:25

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Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

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It was told Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.

A wise child makes a glad father, but the foolish despise their mothers.

The one who fathers a fool gets trouble; the parent of a fool has no joy.

A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

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

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.