²¹ He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

¹ A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

¹³ A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

¹⁵ My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

¹⁶ And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

²⁰ A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

³² And never again will there be an old man in your family.

³³ But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men.

³⁴ And this will be the sign to you, which will come on Hophni and Phinehas, your sons; death will overtake them on the same day.

³⁵ And I will make a true priest for myself, one who will do what is in my heart and in my mind: and I will make for him a family which will not come to an end; and his place will be before my holy one for ever.

³⁴ And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

⁴ I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.

¹⁹ I, Paul, writing this myself, say, I will make payment to you: and I do not say to you that you are in debt to me even for your life.

²⁰ So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.

³ And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.

³³ Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

³ And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.