Proverbs 17:21

^1[+] The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

¹³A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

²⁰A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

^15[+] My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine. ¹⁶Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

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

³⁴When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

³²You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever. ³³The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes^[+] and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age. ³⁴This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die. ³⁵I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.

⁴I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

³³The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

³And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you.