Proverbs 17:21

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

He who fathers a fool falls into sorrow for it; yea, the father of a foolish one will not be joyful.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son makes a father rejoice, but a son who is a fool is a mother’s sorrow.

Proverbs 19:13

A son who is a fool is calamity to his father, and the drippings of a woman is a continuing dripping.

Proverbs 17:25

A son who is a fool is vexation to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes a glad father, but a man who is a fool despises his mother.

Genesis 26:34

And Esau was a son of forty years. And he took a wife, Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite; also Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

3 John 1:4

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

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote this same thing to you, lest coming I might have grief from those of whom I ought to rejoice, trusting in you all that my joy is the joy of all of you.

2 Samuel 18:33

And the king trembled. And he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. And he said this as he went, My son! My son Absalom! My son Absalom! Oh that I had died instead of you, my son Absalom, my son!

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons did not walk in his ways, and turned aside after dishonest gain, and took a bribe, and perverted judgment.