Proverbs 17:21
 Proverbs 17:21 
New International Version (© 2011)
To have a fool for a child brings grief; there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.

King James Bible
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

American Standard Version
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.

Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.

Proverbs 17:21 Additional Translations
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Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 15:20 A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Genesis 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite...

1 Samuel 2:32-35 And you shall see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel...

1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

2 Samuel 18:33 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...

hath

Proverbs 23:15,16 My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine...

2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice...

3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Proverbs 17:21 Parallel Commentaries
Affliction Begetteth Begetting Churl Fool Foolish Gets Grief Grieves Joy Rejoiceth Sires Sorrow Stupid Unwise Vile
Affliction Begetteth Begetting Churl Fool Foolish Gets Grief Grieves Joy Rejoiceth Sires Sorrow Stupid Unwise Vile
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Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.
Proverbs 19:13 A foolish child is a father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.