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Proverbs 10:1 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 10 · verse 1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.Proverbs 10:1 · King James Version
Proverbs 10:1 in context
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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- heavinesstûwgâhdepressionH8424 →
- proverbsmâshâlproperly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical natureH4912 →
- SolomonShᵉlômôhShelomah, David's successorH8010 →
- foolishkᵉçîylproperly, fatH3684 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- wisechâkâmwiseH2450 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary