Proverbs 17:21
He who begets a fool, [there is] trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice.
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.
Proverbs 17:25
A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.
Genesis 26:34
And [when] Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.
1 Samuel 2:32-35
You will look at the distress of my dwelling place, [despite] all the good caused for Israel, but there will never be an old [man] in your household {forever}!
Proverbs 15:20
A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.
Proverbs 23:15-16
My child, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad--even me!
1 Samuel 8:3
But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice.
2 Samuel 18:33
The king was upset, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. He said as he went, "My son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom. {If only} I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son."
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this very [thing] in order that [when I] came, I would not experience sorrow from those who ought to have made me glad, [because I] have confidence about you all, that my joy {belongs to all of you}.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this: that I hear my children are walking in the truth.