Proverbs 17:21
He who fathers a fool does it to his sorrow; the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a wife is a never-ending dripping.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
Genesis 26:34
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
1 Samuel 2:32-35
And you shall see an adversary in My house, in all the good which he does with Israel. And there shall not be an old man in your house forever.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 23:15-16
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after ill gain and took bribes and perverted judgment.
2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said this, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would God I had died for you, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this to you, lest when I came I should have sorrow from the ones of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than these things, to hear that my children walk in the truth.