Proverbs 10:1
A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
2Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:1The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,
Proverbs 17:21A fool is born to his own disgrace: and even his father shall not rejoice in a fool.
Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.
Proverbs 23:24The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
Proverbs 25:1These are also parables of Solomon, which the men of Ezechias, king of Juda, copied out.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth 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 →