Proverbs 17:21

English Standard Version 2016

He who sires a fool gets himself 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 a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

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

When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

2 Samuel 18:33

And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

1 Samuel 8:3

Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.