Proverbs 10:1
A wyse sonne maketh a glad father: but an vndiscrete sonne is an heauinesse vnto his mother.
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In Context
2Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profite nothing: but righteousnesse deliuereth from death.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:1The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,
Proverbs 17:21He that begetteth a foole, begetteth his sorowe: and the father of a foole can haue no ioy.
Proverbs 19:13An vndiscrete sonne is the heauinesse of his father, and a brawlyng wyfe is like the toppe of an house wherthrough it is euer dropping.
Proverbs 23:24The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wyse chylde, shall haue ioy of hym.
Proverbs 25:1These are also parables of Solomon, which the men of Ezekia king of Iuda copied out.
Proverbs 29:15The rodde and correction geueth wisdome: but a childe left to his owne will, bryngeth his mother to shame.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:1
Hitherto we have been in the porch or preface to the proverbs, here they begin. They are short but weighty sentences; most of them are distichs, two sentences in one verse, illustrating each other; but it is seldom that there is any coherence between the verses, much less any thread of discourse, and therefore in these chapters we need not attempt to reduce the contents to their proper heads, the several sentences will appear best in their own places. The scope of them all is to set before us good and evil, the… Read the whole commentary →