Proverbs 17:21

New King James Version

He who begets a scoffer does so to his 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 the grief of his mother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the ruin of his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual 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 father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.

Genesis 26:34

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives 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 to hear that my children walk in truth.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Samuel 18:33

Then the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went, he said thus: “O my son Absalom—my son, my son Absalom—if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son!”

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.