'Child' in the Bible

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!

My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke.

My child, do not let them escape from your sight; safeguard sound wisdom and discretion.

When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.

My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.

My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,

Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger,

then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor's power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.

My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

He who gathers in the summer [is] a child who is prudent; he who sleeps at the harvest [is] a child who brings shame.

A wise child [hears] the discipline of a father, but a scoffer does not listen to a rebuke.

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and in the midst of brothers he will share his inheritance.

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother, [is] a child who causes shame and brings reproach.

If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad;

Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.

Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

Fear the Lord, my child, as well as the king, and do not associate with rebels,

Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, and I will answer him who reproaches me [with] a word.

The one who keeps the law is a discerning child, but a companion of gluttons brings shame to his parents.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Discipline your child, and he will give you rest; he will bring you happiness.

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

Who has ascended [to] heaven and come down? Who has gathered [the] wind in the hollow of his hand? Who has wrapped water in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What [is] his name and what is the name of his child? For [surely] you know.

The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

For when those riches are lost in bad investments and he becomes the father of a son, then there is nothing in his hand [for the support of the child].

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,

Though a stillborn child does not see the sun and is not conscious, it has more rest than he.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

But my dove, my perfect one, is unique:She is her mother’s only daughter;She is the pure child of the one who bore her.The maidens saw her and called her blessed,The queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,

Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

"Therefore the LORD himself will give you a sign. Watch! The virgin is conceiving a child, and will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins

Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

“Before she (Zion) was in labor, she gave birth;Before her labor pain came, she gave birth to a boy.

Like a child whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

A servant is Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

So I said, "Oh, my dear people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with painful sobs as though you had lost your only child. For any moment now that destructive army will come against us."

If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

May the man be cursedwho brought the news to my father, saying,“A male child is born to you,”bringing him great joy.

Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

My eyes have {spent all their tears}; {my stomach} is in torment, {my heart} is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in [the] public squares of a city.

The child and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, thou hast not spared.

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

"{What do you mean by} quoting this proverb about the land of Israel, {saying}, 'The fathers, they ate unripe fruit, and the teeth of the child became blunt.'

I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

And at the end of years they do join themselves together, and a daughter of the king of the south doth come in unto the king of the north to do upright things; and she doth not retain the power of the arm; and he doth not stand, nor his arm; and she is given up, she, and those bringing her in, and her child, and he who is strengthening her in these times.

The LORD told Hosea, "Name the child "Jezreel,' because in a little while I'll avenge the blood that was shed by Jehu's dynasty at Jezreel. I'll put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.