Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Holman Bible
and bitterness to the one who bore him.
International Standard Version
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.
American Standard Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.
Amplified
A foolish son is a grief and anguish to his father
And bitterness to her who gave birth to him.
Bible in Basic English
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
Darby Translation
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
Julia Smith Translation
A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.
King James 2000
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.
Modern King James verseion
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.
NET Bible
A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.
New Heart English Bible
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
The Emphasized Bible
A vexation to his father, is the son that is a dullard, and a bitterness, to her that bare him.
Webster
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
World English Bible
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
Youngs Literal Translation
A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.
Themes
wicked Children » With regard to parents » Are a grief to them
Fools » Are » A grief to parents
Home » parental love » Parental feelings and emotions » Sorrow
Interlinear
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References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 17:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
How Fools Live
24 Wisdom is before the face of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. 25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him. 26 Also to punish a righteous man is not good, [nor] to smite nobles for uprightness.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
2 Samuel 13:1-22
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister whose name was Tamar. And Amnon the son of David loved her.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-19
And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.