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Proverbs 17:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

21 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

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

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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].

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Common English Bible

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

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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.

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Proverbs 17:21
12 Cross References  

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


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


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


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


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:


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


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.


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!


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


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