Proverbs 17:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

Proverbs 17:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Genesis 26:34
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21)

This expresses that very emphatically which many wise and good men feel very sensibly, what a grievous vexatious thing it is to have a foolish wicked child. See here, 1. How uncertain all our creature-comforts are, so that we are often not only disappointed in them, but that proves the greatest cross in which we promised ourselves most satisfaction. There was joy when a man-child was born into the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. (Compare Pr 23:24). Different words are rendered by “fool,” both denoting stupidity and impiety.