Proverbs 17 · Verse 25

Proverbs 17:25

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

Proverbs 17:25, King James Version

Proverbs 17:25 in other translations

BSB	A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
WEB	A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
ASV	A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.
YLT	A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.
DARBY	A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
BBE	A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
Webster	A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

25. a grief--or cross, vexation (compare Pr 17:21; 10:1).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

Wicked children despise the authority of their father, and the tenderness of their mother.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כַּ֣עַסKa.'as[is] griefH3708

לְ֭אָבִיוLe.'a.vivto father hisH1

בֵּ֣ןbena sonH1121

כְּסִ֑ילke.Sila foolH3684

וּ֝מֶ֗מֶרu.Me.merand bitternessH4470

לְיוֹלַדְתּֽוֹ\׃le.yo.lad.Toto [the] [one who] bore himH3205

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh 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.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
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. And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her. But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man. And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister. …
Ecclesiastes 2:18-19
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs 17:26
Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	El hijo necio es enojo á su padre, y amargura á la que lo engendró.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Un fils insensé est un chagrin pour son père et une amertume pour celle qui l’a enfanté.
German Elberfelder 1871	Ein törichter Sohn ist ein Gram für seinen Vater, und Bitterkeit für die, welche ihn geboren.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Ira patris filius stultus, et dolor matris quæ genuit eum.