Proverbs 10:1
These are more proverbs/wise sayings from Solomon: If children are wise, they cause their parents to be happy; but if children are foolish, they cause their parents to be very sad.
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Proverbs 1:1These are the ◄proverbs/wise sayings► that come from Solomon, the King of Israel, who was the son of King David.
Proverbs 17:21Children who are foolish soon cause their parents to be very sad; their parents will not be joyful at all.
Proverbs 19:13Foolish children can cause disasters to happen to their parents. A wife who constantly ◄nags/quarrels with► her husband is as annoying as water that continually drips [MET].
Proverbs 23:24Righteous children will cause their parents to be very happy; those whose children are wise are proud of them.
Proverbs 25:1Here are more wise sayings/words that Solomon wrote. Some men who worked for Hezekiah, the king of Judah, copied them from a scroll that Solomon had written.
Proverbs 29:15If children are punished/spanked and reproved/warned, they become wise; but if they are allowed to do whatever they want to do, they do things that cause their mothers to be ashamed of them.
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 →