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A foolish son brings grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.
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The Shared Pain of Parents
Commentators explain that a foolish child brings profound grief to the father and a unique "bitterness" to the mother. One scholar suggests this maternal sorrow is even more distressing than the pains of childbirth, highlighting the deep, personal anguish a wayward child causes to the one who bore them.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare Proverbs 17:21. Here is added a reference to the sorrow which the folly of a child brings especially to the mother.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
A foolish son [is] a grief to his father Because of his folly and wickedness, and the ruin he is bringing himself to…
Wicked children despise the authority of their father, and the tenderness of their mother.
