Proverbs 17:21 Cross References - LEB

²¹ He who begets a fool, there is trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice.

³⁴ And when Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.

³² You will look at the distress of my dwelling place, despite all the good caused for Israel, but there will never be an old man in your household _⌊forever_⌋!* ³³ The only one I will not cut off from my altar is you.* Rather, to cause your eyes to fail and to cause your soul to grieve, _⌊all the members of your household_⌋* will die as men.* ³⁴ This is the sign for you that will come regarding your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: they will both die on the same day! ³⁵ But I will raise up for myself a reliable* priest; he will do just according to what is in my heart and in my soul. I will build for him a lasting* house and he will walk continually before my anointed one _⌊forever_⌋.*

³ But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice.

³³ * The king was upset, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. He said as he went, "My son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom. _⌊If only_⌋* I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son."

¹ The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

²⁰ A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a _⌊foolish person_⌋,* he despises his mother.

²⁵ A grief to his father is the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

¹³ A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman* is a continuous dripping.

¹⁵ My child, if your heart* is wise, my heart will be glad—even me! ¹⁶ And my _⌊insides_⌋* will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.

³ And I wrote this very thing in order that when I* came, I would not experience sorrow from those who ought to have made me glad, because I* have confidence about you all, that my joy _⌊belongs to all of you_⌋*.

¹⁹ I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will pay it back, lest I mention to you that _⌊you owe me even your very self besides_⌋*. ²⁰ Yes, brother, I ought to have some benefit of you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

⁴ I have no greater joy than this: that I hear my children are walking in the truth.