A Collection of Solomon’s Proverbs

10 Solomon’s proverbs:(A)

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.(B)

Read full chapter

The Proverbs of Solomon

10 The proverbs of Solomon:

A wise child[a] brings joy to a father;
    a foolish child brings grief to a mother.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 10:1 Hebrew son; also in 10:1b.

20 A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.(A)

Read full chapter

20 Sensible children bring joy to their father;
    foolish children despise their mother.

Read full chapter

A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son
and share an inheritance among brothers.

Read full chapter

A wise servant will rule over the master’s disgraceful son
    and will share the inheritance of the master’s children.

Read full chapter

25 A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.(A)

Read full chapter

25 Foolish children[a] bring grief to their father
    and bitterness to the one who gave them birth.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 17:25 Hebrew A foolish son.

13 A foolish son is his father’s ruin,(A)
and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.(B)

Read full chapter

13 A foolish child[a] is a calamity to a father;
    a quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 19:13 Hebrew son; also in 19:27.

26 The one who assaults his father and evicts his mother
is a disgraceful and shameful son.

Read full chapter

26 Children who mistreat their father or chase away their mother
    are an embarrassment and a public disgrace.

Read full chapter