Proverbs 17:25
"A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him."
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- Proverbs 10:1
"The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 15:20
"A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 13:1
"And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 19:13
"A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:18
"Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me."
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