A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.
A self-confident and foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
A foolish son is irritating to his father and bitter to her who gave birth to him.
A foolish son is the anger of the father and the grief of the mother who conceived him.
A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.
And it was told Jo´ab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Ab´salom.
The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.