Proverbs 17:21
King James Version (KJV)
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
American Standard Version (ASV)
He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.
World English Bible (WEB)
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:21 Cross References
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
