Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
He who fathers a fool does it to his sorrow; the father of a fool has no joy.
New American Standard Bible
And the father of a fool has no joy.
King James Version
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Holman Bible
the father of a fool has no joy.
International Standard Version
The man who fathers a fool does so to his sorrow the father of a fool has no joy.
A Conservative Version
He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.
American Standard Version
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.
Amplified
He who becomes the parent of a fool [who is spiritually blind] does so to his sorrow,
And the father of a fool [who is spiritually blind] has no joy.
Bible in Basic English
He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.
Darby Translation
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow, and the father of a vile man hath no joy.
Julia Smith Translation
The foolish one was born for sorrow to himself, and the father of the foolish one shall not rejoice.,
King James 2000
He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He who begets a fool, [there is] trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An unwise body bringeth himself in to sorrow; and the father of a fool can have no joy.
NET Bible
Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.
New Heart English Bible
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
The Emphasized Bible
He that begetteth a dullard, it is to his own grief, neither can the father of the base, rejoice.
Webster
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
World English Bible
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.
Themes
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Interlinear
Yalad
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 17:21
Prayers for Proverbs 17:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
20 He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a crooked tongue falls into mischief. 21 He who fathers a fool does it to his sorrow; the father of a fool has no joy. 22 A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a wife is a never-ending dripping.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
Genesis 26:34
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
1 Samuel 2:32-35
And you shall see an adversary in My house, in all the good which he does with Israel. And there shall not be an old man in your house forever.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 23:15-16
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after ill gain and took bribes and perverted judgment.
2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said this, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would God I had died for you, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this to you, lest when I came I should have sorrow from the ones of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than these things, to hear that my children walk in the truth.