Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An unwise body bringeth himself in to sorrow; and the father of a fool can have 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 King James verseion
He who fathers a fool does it to his sorrow; the father of a fool has 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 Whoso hath a froward heart, obtaineth no good; and he that hath an overthwart tongue, shall fall into mischief. 21 An unwise body bringeth himself in to sorrow; and the father of a fool can have no joy. 22 A merry heart maketh a lusty age; but a sorrowful mind drieth up the bones.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.
Proverbs 19:13
An indiscreet son is the heaviness of his father; and a brawling wife is like the top of a house, wherethrough it is ever dropping.
Proverbs 17:25
An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.
Genesis 26:34
When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri, an Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon, an Hittite also,
1 Samuel 2:32-35
And thou shalt see thine enemy in the tabernacle, in all that shall please Israel, and there shall not be an elder in thine house while the world standeth.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet body shameth his mother.
Proverbs 23:15-16
My son, if thy heart receive wisdom, my heart also shall rejoice:
1 Samuel 8:3
Nevertheless, his sons followed not his steps: but turned aside after lucre and took rewards, and perverted the right.
2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was moved and went up to a chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went thus he said, "My son Absalom, my son, my son, my son Absalom, would to God I had died for thee Absalom, my son, my son."
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this same epistle unto you, lest if I came, I should take heaviness of them, of whom I ought to rejoice. Certainly this confidence have I in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than for to hear how that my sons walk in verity.