Proverbs 17:25

17:25 A foolish child is a grief ¹  to his father,

and bitterness to the mother who bore him. ² 

Proverbs 23:25

23:25 May your father and your mother have joy;

may she who bore you rejoice. ³ 

[17:25]  ¹ sn The Hebrew noun means “vexation, anger, grief.”

[17:25]  ² tn Heb “to the one who bore him.” Because the participle is feminine singular in Hebrew, this has been translated as “the mother who bore him.”

[23:25]  ³ tn The form תָגֵל (tagel) is clearly a short form and therefore a jussive (“may she…rejoice”); if this second verb is a jussive, then the parallel יִשְׂמַח (yismakh) should be a jussive also (“may your father and your mother have joy”).