Proverbs 17:21

Modern King James Version

He who fathers a fool does it to his sorrow; 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 sorrow of his mother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a wife is a never-ending dripping.

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 Esau was forty years old when 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, to hear that my children walk in the truth.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote this to you, lest when I came I should have sorrow from the ones of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Samuel 18:33

And the king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said this, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would God I had died for you, O Absalom, my son, my son!

1 Samuel 8:3

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