Proverbs 17:21
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
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- Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
- Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
- Genesis 26:34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.