Proverbs 17:21

American King James Version (1999)

He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.

Cross References

Genesis 26:34

And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

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 God I had died for you, O Absalom, my son, my son!

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 15:20

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

Proverbs 17:25

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

Proverbs 19:13

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

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote this same to you, 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.

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

1 Samuel 8:3

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