Proverbs 17:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ A self-confident and foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Common English Bible

²⁵ A foolish son is irritating to his father and bitter to her who gave birth to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ A foolish son is the anger of the father and the grief of the mother who conceived him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

Proverbs 17:25 Cross References

2 Samuel 19:1

It was told Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”

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 17:21

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

Proverbs 19:13

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

Proverbs 23:25

Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.