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Proverbs 17:25

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

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כַּ֣עַסkaasangerכַּעַסnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “anger”, the ordinary formH3708vexationanger, angry, grief, indignation, provocation, provoking, [idiom] sore, sorrow, spite, wrath.לְ֭אָבִיוleavivto fatherאָבpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “to father”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationchief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.בֵּ֣ןbensonבֵּןnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “son”, the ordinary formH1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)[phrase] afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ([phrase]) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, [phrase] (young) bullock, [phrase] (young) calf, […כְּסִ֑ילkesilfoolכְּסִילadjective, adjective, masculine, singular, absolute — “fool”, the ordinary formH3684properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or sillyfool(-ish).וּ֝מֶ֗מֶרumemerand bitternessמֶמֶרconjunction, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “and bitterness”, the ordinary formH4470sorrowbitterness.לְיוֹלַדְתּֽוֹleyoladtvoto bearיָלַדpreposition, verb, qal, participle, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “to bear”, a verb used as a describing wordH3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineagebear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (wom…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

A foolish son is vexation to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

A provocation to his father [is] a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

World English Bible

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

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

A foolish son is vexation to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

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

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ὀργὴ πατρὶ υἱὸς ἄφρων, καὶ ὀδύνη τῇ τεκούσῃ αὐτόν.