Proverbs 17:25 · KJV
“A foolish son {is} a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.”
— Proverbs 17:25
Wisdom {is} before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool {are} in the ends of the earth.
Also to punish the just {is} not good, {nor} to strike princes for equity.
Proverbs 17 — Context
A wicked {man} taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
24Wisdom {is} before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool {are} in the ends of the earth.
25A foolish son {is} a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
26Also to punish the just {is} not good, {nor} to strike princes for equity.
27He that hath knowledge spareth his words: {and} a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. {an...: or, a cool}
Cross References
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 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth 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.
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. {taken: Heb. laboured}