Proverbs 17:25

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

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It was told 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 a sorrow to his mother.

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

A stupid son is a grief to a father; and the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son is ruin to his 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 child left to himself brings shame to his mother.