Proverbs 17:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: And the father of a fool hath no joy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: And the father of a fool hath no joy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He who becomes the parent of a [self-confident] fool does it to his sorrow, and the father of [an empty-headed] fool has no joy [in him].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Having a fool for a son brings grief; there’s no joy for a scoundrel’s father.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A foolish one is born into his own disgrace. But his father will not rejoice in one who is senseless.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 17:21 Cross References

Genesis 26:34

And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

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, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

3 John 1:4

Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgement.