Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
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Bible References
Proverbs
Proverbs 1:1
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel;
Proverbs 25:1
These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
1 Kings 4:32
And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
Ecclesiastes 12:9
And the wiser the preacher became that much more did he teach wisdom to the people, causing them to listen and to search things out, and he composed many proverbs.
A wise
Proverbs 15:20
The wise son makes a glad father, but the foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 17:21
He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow, and the father of a fool shall have no joy.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is a pain unto his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.
Proverbs 23:15
My son, if thy heart is wise, my heart shall also rejoice;
Proverbs 29:3
Whosoever loves wisdom causes his father to rejoice, but he that maintains harlots shall lose his inheritance.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool, he who shall have rule over all my labour in which I have laboured and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun? This is also vanity.
General references
Proverbs 17:25
The foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.