Proverbs 17:25 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare 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 maketh a glad father: But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 19:13

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

Proverbs 15:20

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

Proverbs 17:21

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

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom: But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

2 Samuel 19:1

And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

Proverbs 23:25

Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.