Proverbs 10:1
New International Version
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

New Living Translation
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child brings joy to a father; a foolish child brings grief to a mother.

English Standard Version
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Berean Standard Bible
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

King James Bible
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

New King James Version
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

New American Standard Bible
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

NASB 1995
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

NASB 1977
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

Legacy Standard Bible
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

Amplified Bible
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish [stubborn] son [who refuses to learn] is a grief to his mother.

Christian Standard Bible
Solomon’s proverbs: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Solomon’s proverbs: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.

American Standard Version
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A wise son gladdens his father, and a son deficient in mind shames his mother.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A wise son makes his father glad: but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

Contemporary English Version
Here are some proverbs of Solomon: Children with good sense make their parents happy, but foolish children make them sad.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

English Revised Version
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The proverbs of Solomon:+b A wise son makes his father happy, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Good News Translation
These are Solomon's proverbs: Wise children make their fathers proud of them; foolish ones bring their mothers grief.

International Standard Version
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grieves his mother.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Literal Standard Version
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causes a father to rejoice, | And a foolish son [is] an affliction to his mother.

Majority Standard Bible
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

New American Bible
The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise son gives his father joy, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

NET Bible
The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

New Revised Standard Version
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.

New Heart English Bible
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Webster's Bible Translation
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

World English Bible
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Young's Literal Translation
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

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Context
Solomon's Proverbs: The Wise Son
1The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother. 2Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.…

Cross References
1 Kings 4:32
Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

Proverbs 1:1
These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,

Proverbs 13:1
A wise son heeds his father's discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 17:21
A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Proverbs 23:24
The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.


Treasury of Scripture

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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Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 17:21,25
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy…

Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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Proverbs 10
1. Proverbs of Solomon: observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices














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3. A COLLECTION OF 375 SEPARATE VERSES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, MARKED BY A NEW HEADING (Proverbs 10:1 to Proverbs 22:16).

(1) The proverbs of Solomon.--The new title and different style of composition mark a new collection of proverbs. (See above, in the Introduction.) Each verse is distinct and complete in itself; but the collector appears to have endeavoured to throw together such as touched on the same subject. For instance, Proverbs 10:4-5, show why one man fails and another succeeds; Proverbs 10:6-7, how blessings and curses follow different persons. But the connection is sometimes so slight as to be difficult to catch.

Verse 1-ch. 22:16. - Part III. FIRST GREAT COLLECTION (375) OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS. Verse 1-ch. 12:28. - First section. The sections are noted by their commencing usually with the words, "a wise son." Verse 1. - The proverbs of Solomon. This is the title of the new part of the book; it is omitted in the Septuagint. There is some kind of loose connection in the grouping of these proverbs, but it is difficult to follow. "Ordo frustra quaeritur ubi nullus fuit observatus," says Mart. Geier. Wordsworth considers the present chapter to contain exemplifications of the principles and results of the two ways of life displayed in the preceding nine chapters. The antithetical character of the sentences is most marked and well sustained. As the book is specially designed for the edification of youth, it begins with an appropriate saying. A wise son maketh a glad father. As wisdom comprises all moral excellence, and folly is vice and perversity, the opposite characters attributed to the son are obvious. The mother is introduced for the sake of parallelism; though some commentators suggest that as the father would be naturally elated by his son's virtues, which would conduce to honour and high estate, so the mother would be grieved at vices which her training had not subdued, and her indulgence had fostered. If this seems somewhat far-fetched, we may consider that the father in the maxim includes the mother, and the mother the father, the two being separated for the purpose of contrast (see on Proverbs 26:3). The word for heaviness occurs in Proverbs 14:13 and Proverbs 17:21.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The proverbs
מִשְׁלֵ֗י (miš·lê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4912: A pithy maxim, a simile

of Solomon:
שְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥ה (šə·lō·mōh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8010: Solomon -- David's son and successor to his throne

A wise
חָ֭כָם (ḥā·ḵām)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2450: Wise

son
בֵּ֣ן (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

brings joy
יְשַׂמַּח־ (yə·śam·maḥ-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8055: To brighten up, be, blithe, gleesome

to his father,
אָ֑ב (’āḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

but a foolish
כְּ֝סִ֗יל (kə·sîl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3684: Stupid fellow, dullard, fool

son
וּבֵ֥ן (ū·ḇên)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

grief
תּוּגַ֥ת (tū·ḡaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8424: Depression, a grief

to his mother.
אִמּֽוֹ׃ (’im·mōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )


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