Proverbs 29:3
Good News Translation
If you appreciate wisdom, your parents will be proud of you. It is a foolish waste to spend money on prostitutes.

New Revised Standard Version
A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but to keep company with prostitutes is to squander one’s substance.

Contemporary English Version
If you love wisdom your parents will be glad, but chasing after bad women will cost you everything.

New American Bible
Whoever loves wisdom gives joy to his father, but whoever consorts with harlots squanders his wealth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance.

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Proverbs 10:1 Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 15:20 A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 23:15,24,25 My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee: . . .

Proverbs 27:11 Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.

Luke 1:13-17 But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt call his name John. . . .

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Proverbs 5:8-10 Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel. . . .

Proverbs 6:26 Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?

Proverbs 21:17,20 He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich. . . .

Proverbs 28:7,19 He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father. . . .

Luke 15:13,30 And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously. . . .

Context
The Stiff-Necked will Be Destroyed
2When just men increase, the people shall rejoice: when the wicked shall bear rule, the people shall mourn. 3A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance.4A just king setteth up the land: a covetous man shall destroy it.…
Cross References
Luke 15:30
But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Proverbs 5:10
And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;

Proverbs 6:26
Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?

Proverbs 10:1
Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 23:15
My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:

Proverbs 23:24
The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.

Proverbs 27:11
Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.

Proverbs 28:7
He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.

Proverbs 29:2
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