Proverbs 17:25

New Living Translation

Foolish children bring grief to their father and bitterness to the one who gave them birth.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
A foolish son is a vexation to his fatherAnd bitterness to her who gave birth to him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
A foolish son is a grief to his father And bitterness to her who bore him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
An vndiscrete sonne is a griefe vnto his father: and an heauinesse vnto his mother.

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

New King James Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

Literal Translation
A foolish son is a vexation to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Easy-to-Read Version
Foolish children upset their parents and make them sad.

World English Bible
A foolish son brings grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

King James Version (1611)
A foolish sonne is a griefe to his father, & bitternes to her that bare him.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
An vndiscrete sonne is a grefe vnto his father, and heuynesse vnto his mother yt bare him.

THE MESSAGE
A surly, stupid child is sheer pain to a father, a bitter pill for a mother to swallow.

Amplified Bible
A foolish son is a grief and anguish to his father And bitterness to her who gave birth to him.

American Standard Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Bible in Basic English
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

Update Bible Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bore him.

Webster's Bible Translation
A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

New English Translation
A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

Contemporary English Version
Foolish children bring sorrow to their father and pain to their mother.

Complete Jewish Bible
A son who is a fool means anger for his father and bitterness for the mother who gave him birth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
A foolish sonne is a griefe vnto his father, and a heauines to her that bare him.

George Lamsa Translation
A foolish son provokes his father, and is bitterness to her who bore him.

Hebrew Names Version
A foolish son brings grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
A foolish son is vexation to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

New Life Bible
A foolish son is a sorrow to his father, and trouble to her who gave birth to him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A foolish son is a cause of anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.

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

Berean Standard Bible
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

New Revised Standard
Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A vexation to his father, is the son that is a dullard, and a bitterness, to her that bare him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

Lexham English Bible
A grief to his father is the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

English Standard Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

New American Standard Bible
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who gave birth to him.

New Century Version
Foolish children make their father sad and cause their mother great sorrow.

Good News Translation
Foolish children bring grief to their fathers and bitter regrets to their mothers.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A fonned sone is the ire of the fadir, and the sorewe of the modir that gendride hym.

Revised Standard Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Young's Literal Translation
A provocation to his father [is] a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Contextual Overview

²⁵ Foolish children bring grief to their father and bitterness to the one who gave them birth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 15:20, Proverbs 19:13, 2 Samuel 13:1-22, Ecclesiastes 2:18, Ecclesiastes 2:19

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 18:33 - would God 2 Samuel 19:1 - General Proverbs 17:21 - that Proverbs 19:26 - wasteth Proverbs 23:25 - and she Proverbs 29:15 - a child 2 Corinthians 2:5 - any

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A foolish son [is] a grief to his father,.... Because of his folly and wickedness, and the ruin he is bringing himself to;

and bitterness to her that bare him; a cause of bitterness of soul to his mother, more distressing than the bitter pains with which she brought him forth into the world. Jarchi, by the father, understands the blessed God; and by her that bare him, the congregation of Israel; to whom Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was bitterness, who caused Israel to sin; see Proverbs 10:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Proverbs 17:21. Here is added a reference to the sorrow which the folly of a child brings especially to the mother.