Proverbs 10:1
Verse 1 of 32. The 10th of 31 chapters in Proverbs, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
3The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
4He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
5He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
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Proverbs 10:1 in the World English Bible
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.Read Proverbs 10:1 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:1
Solomon, speaking to us as unto children, observes here how much the comfort of parents, natural, political, and ecclesiastical, depends upon the good behaviour of those under their charge, as a reason, 1. Why parents should be careful to give their children a good education, and to train them up in the ways of religion, which, if it obtain the desired effect, they themselves will have the comfort of it, or, if not, they will have for their support under…
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