Proverbs 17:21

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

A stupid son is a grief to a father; 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 a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

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

When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Be-eri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

3 John 1:4

No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow 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 felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

2 Samuel 18:33

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