Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
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In Context
2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Proverbs 17:21He that bring forths a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs 23:24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that bring forths a wise child shall have joy of him.
Proverbs 25:1These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings 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 →