Proverbs 17:25
Good News Translation
Foolish children bring grief to their fathers and bitter regrets to their mothers.

New Revised Standard Version
Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

Contemporary English Version
Foolish children bring sorrow and pain to their parents.

New American Bible
A foolish son is vexation to his father, and bitter sorrow to her who bore him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

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 19:13 A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

2 Samuel 13:1 And it came to pass after this that Ammon the son of David loved the sister of Absalom the son of David, who was very beautiful, and her name was Thamar.

Ecclesiastes 2:18,19 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, . . .

Context
Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
24Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth. 25A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.26It is no good thing to do hurt to the just: nor to strike the prince, who judgeth right.…
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1
Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 17:21
A fool is born to his own disgrace: and even his father shall not rejoice in a fool.

Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame.

Proverbs 17:24
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