He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad. My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.
A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever. The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men. And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day. And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.
When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self. Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.
And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.
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