Proverbs 10:1
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causes a father to rejoice, || And a foolish son [is] an affliction to his mother.
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2Treasures of wickedness do not profit, || And righteousness delivers from death.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:1Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
Proverbs 17:21Whoever is begetting a fool has affliction for it, || Indeed, the father of a fool does not rejoice.
Proverbs 19:13A foolish son [is] a calamity to his father, || And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
Proverbs 23:24The father of the righteous rejoices greatly, || The begetter of the wise rejoices in him.
Proverbs 25:1These are also proverbs of Solomon, that men of Hezekiah king of Judah transcribed:
Proverbs 29:15A rod and reproof give wisdom, || And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
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 →