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• A foolish son is the anger of the father and the grief of the mother who conceived him. (Proverbs 17, 25)

• A foolish son is the grief of his father. And an argumentative wife is like a roof that is continually leaking. (Proverbs 19, 13)

• For a father, embittered with the suffering of grief, made an image of his son, who had been suddenly taken away from him, and then, he who had died as a man, now begins to be worshiped as if a god, and so rites and sacrifices are established among his servants. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 15)

• For, while the just were still holding grief in their hands and weeping at the tombs of the dead, these others took upon themselves another senseless thought, and they cast out the legislators and pursued them as if they were fugitives. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 3)

• You should not say, “I sinned, and what grief has befallen me?” For the Most High is a patient recompensor. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 4)

• Blessed is the man who has not slipped because of a word from his mouth, and who has not been stung by grief because of an offense. (Ecclesiasticus 14, 1)

• Son, in your good works, you should not complain, and in giving anything, you should not cause grief with evil words. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 15)

• A jealous wife is a grief and a mourning to the heart. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 8)

• Whoever enjoys the fall of the just will perish in a snare, and grief will consume them before they die. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 32)

• You should not laugh with him; otherwise you may have grief, and in the end, your teeth be clenched. (Ecclesiasticus 30, 10)

• A corrupt heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will resist it. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 22)

• Every friend will say: “I also am a close friend.” But there is a friend who is a friend in name only. Is this not a grief even unto death? (Ecclesiasticus 37, 1)