Proverbs 17:25
Modern Translations
New International Version
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

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

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

Berean Study Bible
A foolish son brings 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.

NASB 1995
A foolish son is a grief to his father And bitterness to her who bore him.

NASB 1977
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

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

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

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A foolish son is a heartache to his father and bitter grief to his mother.

International Standard Version
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

NET Bible
A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

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

King James 2000 Bible
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

New Heart English Bible
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bishops' Bible of 1568
An vndiscrete sonne is a griefe vnto his father: and an heauinesse vnto his mother.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
An vndiscrete sonne is a grefe vnto his father, and heuynesse vnto his mother yt bare him.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
A foolish son [is] a provocation to his father, "" And bitterness to her bearing him.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
A foolish son is the anger of the father and the grief of the mother who conceived him.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
A foolish son angers his father and embitters her that bore him.

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

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
A foolish son is vexation to his father, And bitterness to her that bore him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A foolish son is a cause of anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.
















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