Proverbs 17:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ The one who fathers a fool gets trouble; the parent of a fool has no joy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: And the father of a fool hath no joy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ 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)

²¹ He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.

Common English Bible

²¹ Having a fool for a son brings grief; there’s no joy for a scoundrel’s father.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ 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

²¹ 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

When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite,

2 Samuel 18:33

The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept, and as he went he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise child makes a glad father, but the foolish despise their mothers.

Proverbs 17:25

Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

Proverbs 19:13

A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer grief from those who should have made me rejoice, for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

1 Samuel 8:3

Yet his sons did not follow in his ways but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.