Proverbs 17:25
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A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

Proverbs 10:1
Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 17:21
A fool is born to his own disgrace: and even his father shall not rejoice in a fool.

Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame.

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A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

Proverbs 10:1 Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 15:20 A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

2 Samuel 13:1 And it came to pass after this that Ammon the son of David loved the sister of Absalom the son of David, who was very beautiful, and her name was Thamar.

Ecclesiastes 2:18,19 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, . . .

Context
Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
24Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth. 25A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.26It is no good thing to do hurt to the just: nor to strike the prince, who judgeth right.…
Lexicon
A foolish
כְּסִ֑יל (kə·sîl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3684: Stupid fellow, dullard, fool

son
בֵּ֣ן (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

brings grief
כַּ֣עַס (ka·‘as)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3708: Vexation, anger

to his father
לְ֭אָבִיו (lə·’ā·ḇîw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

and bitterness
וּ֝מֶ֗מֶר (ū·me·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4470: Bitterness

to her who bore him.
לְיוֹלַדְתּֽוֹ׃ (lə·yō·w·laḏ·tōw)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage


Additional Translations
A foolish son brings 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 bore him.

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

A foolish son is a cause of anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.

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

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 bore him.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.
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