Proverbs 17:25 “A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bor…”

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

A foolish sonne is a griefe vnto his father, and a heauines to her that bare him.

Darby Translation

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

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Cross references

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

Proverbs 10:1 Proverbs 15:20 Proverbs 19:13 2 Samuel 13:1–22 Ecclesiastes 2:18 Ecclesiastes 2:19

Proverbs 10:1 · BSB

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

Proverbs 15:20 · BSB

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 19:13 · BSB

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

2 Samuel 13:1–22 · BSB

After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.

Ecclesiastes 2:18 · BSB

I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Ecclesiastes 2:19 · BSB

And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24Wisdom is the focus of the discerning, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

26It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.

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