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