25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
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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.
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. …
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25)Observe, 1. Wicked children are an affliction to both their parents. They are an occasion of anger to the father (so the word signifies), because they contemn his authority, but of sorrow and bitterness to the mother, because they abuse her tenderness. The parents, being joint-sufferers, should therefore bring mutual comfort to bear them up under it, and strive to make it as easy as they can, the…
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