The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son {is} the heaviness of his mother.

A foolish son {is} the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife {are} a continual dropping.

My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. {even...: or, even I will rejoice}

And thou shalt see an enemy {in my} habitation, in all {the wealth} which {God} shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever. {an enemy...: or, the affliction of the tabernacle, for all the wealth which God would have given Israel}

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

A foolish son {is} a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

I Paul have written {it} with mine own hand, I will repay {it}: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is {the joy} of you all.

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son {is} the heaviness of his mother.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left {to himself} bringeth his mother to shame.

A foolish son {is} the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife {are} a continual dropping.

Now, lo, {if} he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,