Proverbs 17:25

Revised Version 1885

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:1

And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 17:21

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: And the father of a fool hath no joy.

Proverbs 19:13

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

Proverbs 23:25

Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom: But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.