Proverbs 17:21

New Messianic Version Bible

He that begets a fool [does it] to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Shlomo (Solomon) [Peace]. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother.

Genesis 26:34

And ‘Esav (hairy) was forty years old when he took to wife Y’hudit (Let the Powerful One be Praised [Yah]) the daughter of Be’eri (my well) the Hitti (terrorists), and Basmat (spice) the daughter of Eilon (terebinth- Pistacia terebinthus- source of tanning material and turpentine; mighty) the Hitti (terrorists):

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 same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them 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 chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Avshalom [my father is peace], my son, my son Avshalom [my father is peace]! would God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] I had died for youi, O Avshalom [my father is peace], my son, my son!

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after profit, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.