Proverbs 17:21

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

It's never pleasant to be the parent of a fool and have nothing but pain.

Cross References

Genesis 26:34

When Esau was forty, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

2 Samuel 18:33

David started trembling. Then he went up to the room above the city gate to cry. As he went, he kept saying, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I could have died instead of you! Absalom, my son, my son!”

Proverbs 10:1

Here are some proverbs of Solomon: Children with good sense make their parents happy, but foolish children make them sad.

Proverbs 15:20

Children with good sense make their parents happy, but foolish children are hateful to them.

Proverbs 17:25

Foolish children bring sorrow to their father and pain to their mother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son brings disgrace to his father. A nagging wife goes on and on like the drip, drip, drip of the rain.

2 Corinthians 2:3

The reason I want to be happy is to make you happy. I wrote as I did because I didn't want to visit you and be made to feel bad, when you should make me feel happy.

3 John 1:4

Nothing brings me greater happiness than to hear that my children are obeying the truth.

1 Samuel 8:3

But they were not like their father. They were dishonest and accepted bribes to give unfair decisions.