"He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy."
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And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
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!
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.
He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow, and the father of a vile [man] hath no joy.
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.