Proverbs 17:25
Children who are foolish cause their father to be sad and also cause their mother to be very sorrowful.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:1Someone told Joab that the king was crying and mourning because Absalom had died.
Proverbs 15:20Children who are wise cause their parents to be happy; it is foolish children who despise their parents.
Proverbs 23:25Do what will cause your father to be glad and enable your mother also to be happy.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:25
24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. Note, 1. He is to be reckoned an intelligent man that not only has wisdom, but has it ready when he has occasion for it. He lays his wisdom before him, as his card and compass which he steers by, has his eye always upon it, as he that writes has on his copy; and then he has it before him; it is not to seek, but still at hand. 2. He that has a giddy head, a roving rambling fancy, will never be fit for any solid… Read the whole commentary →