Proverbs 17:21

Young's Literal Translation 1862

Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.

Cross References

Genesis 26:34

And Esau is a son of forty years, and he taketh a wife, Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite,

2 Samuel 18:33

And the king trembleth, and goeth up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weepeth, and thus he hath said in his going, `My son! Absalom my son; my son Absalom; oh that I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son.'

Proverbs 10:1

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son `is' an affliction to his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

Proverbs 17:25

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

Proverbs 19:13

A calamity to his father `is' a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife `are' a continual dropping.

2 Corinthians 2:3

and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

3 John 1:4

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

1 Samuel 8:3

and his sons have not walked in his ways, and turn aside after the dishonest gain, and take a bribe, and turn aside judgment.