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