Proverbs 17:21

A Conservative Version

He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes 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 17:25

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

Proverbs 15:20

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

Genesis 26:34

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.

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than these things that I hear my children walking in truth.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

2 Samuel 18:33

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 I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.