Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
Proverbs 17:25
In 11 translations
- BSB
- A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
- KJV
- A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare 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.
- LSV
- A foolish son [is] a provocation to his father, || And bitterness to her bearing him.
- YLT
- A provocation to his father [is] a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.
- DBY
- A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
- DRC
- A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.
- GNV
- A foolish sonne is a griefe vnto his father, and a heauines to her that bare him.
- JPS
- A foolish son is vexation to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
- LXXE
- A foolish son is a cause of anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.
Word by word Hebrew · tap a word
Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- כַּ֣עַס לְ֭אָבִיו בֵּ֣ן כְּסִ֑יל וּ֝מֶ֗מֶר לְיוֹלַדְתּֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὀργὴ πατρὶ υἱὸς ἄφρων, καὶ ὀδύνη τῇ τεκούσῃ αὐτόν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
- 2 Samuel 13:1–22After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom. Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to…
- Proverbs 15:20A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
- Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
- Ecclesiastes 2:18–19I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have…
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