21He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21)This expresses that very emphatically which many wise and good men feel very sensibly, what a grievous vexatious thing it is to have a foolish wicked child. See here, 1. How uncertain all our creature-comforts are, so that we are often not only disappointed in them, but that proves the greatest cross in which we promised ourselves most satisfaction. There was joy when a man-child was born into the…
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