Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

He who sires a fool does so to his sorrow,
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

A man fathers a fool to his own sorrow;
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

a fool
כּסיל 
K@ciyl 
Usage: 70

doeth it to his sorrow
תּוּגה 
Tuwgah 
Usage: 4

and the father
H1
אב 
'ab 
Usage: 1214

of a fool
נבל 
Nabal 
Usage: 18

Prayers for Proverbs 17:21

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

20 The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil. 21 Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not. 22 A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

Cross References

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 19:13

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

Proverbs 17:25

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

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,

1 Samuel 2:32-35

and thou hast beheld an adversary in My habitation, in all that He doth good with Israel, and there is not an old man in thy house all the days.

Proverbs 15:20

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

Proverbs 23:15-16

My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

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.

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.'

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.

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