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)

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Wise Sayings of Solomon

10 The proverbs of Solomon.

A wise child makes a glad father,
    but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.(A)

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

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20 A wise child makes a glad father,
    but the foolish despise their mothers.(A)

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

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A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully
    and will share the inheritance as one of the family.(A)

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

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25 Foolish children are a grief to their father
    and bitterness to her who bore them.(A)

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

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13 A stupid child is ruin to a father,
    and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.(A)

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

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26 Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother
    are children who cause shame and bring reproach.

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