Proverbs 17:21

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

A fool is born in his shame; but neither the father shall be glad in a fool.

Cross References

Genesis 26:34

Esau forsooth forty years eld [or old] wedded two wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri Hittite, and Bashemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place;

2 Samuel 18:33

Therefore the king was sorry, and went up into the solar of the gate, and he wept, and spake thus going, My son, Absalom! Absalom, my son! who giveth to me, that I die for thee? Absalom, my son! my son, Absalom!

Proverbs 10:1

The parables of Solomon. A wise son maketh glad his father; but a fond [or foolish] son is the sorrow of his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son maketh glad his father; but a fond [or foolish] man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 17:25

A fond [or foolish] son is the ire [or the wrath] of the father, and the sorrow of the mother that bare him.

Proverbs 19:13

The sorrow of the father is a fond [or foolish] son; and roofs dropping continually is a woman full of chiding.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And this same thing I wrote to you, that when I come, I have not sorrow on sorrow, of the which it behooved me to have joy. And I trust in you all, that my joy is of all you [or of you all].

3 John 1:4

I have not more grace of these things, than that I hear that my sons walk in truth.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons went not in his ways, but they bowed after avarice, and they took gifts, and perverted doom.