Proverbs 17:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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.

Proverbs 17:25 Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 17:21

A stupid son is a grief to a father; and the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

2 Samuel 19:1

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

Proverbs 23:25

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