Proverbs 17:21

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

The one who begets a fool gets trouble; the parent of a fool has no joy.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother's grief.

Proverbs 19:13

A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 17:25

Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise child makes a glad father, but the foolish despise their mothers.

Genesis 26:34

When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite;

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than this, 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 am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.

2 Samuel 18:33

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 follow in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.