Proverbs 17:21
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.
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- Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
- Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Genesis 26:34 And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: