Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

A foolish son is a grief to his father
And bitterness to her who bore him.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.

International Standard Version

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

A Conservative Version

A foolish son is a 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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּסיל 
K@ciyl 
Usage: 70

is a grief
כּעשׂ כּעס 
Ka`ac 
Usage: 25

ממר 
memer 
Usage: 1

ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

References

Smith

Context Readings

How Fools Live

24 Wisdom is before him that hath 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 that bore him. 26 To punish a righteous man is not good, nor to strike nobles because of their uprightness.



Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief 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 having a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar, Amnon the son of David loved her.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Ecclesiastes 2:18-19

And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

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