Proverbs

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.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

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!

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