Proverbs 17:25

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

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 15:20

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

Proverbs 17:21

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

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.

2 Samuel 19:1

It was told Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”

Proverbs 23:25

Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.