THEOSISProverbs 17:25Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.
כַּ֣עַס לְ֭אָבִיו בֵּ֣ן כְּסִ֑יל וּ֝מֶ֗מֶר לְיוֹלַדְתּֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 10:1A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.
- Prov 19:13A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.
- Prov 15:20A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth his mother.
- Eccl 2:18Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
- Eccl 2:19Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain?
- 2 Sam 13:1And it came to pass after this that Ammon the son of David loved the sister of Absalom the son of David, who was very beautiful, and her name was Thamar.
- 2 Sam 13:22But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.