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Selected Verse: Proverbs 17:25 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Pr 17:25	Strong Concordance	A foolish [03684] son [01121] is a grief [03708] to his father [01], and bitterness [04470] to her that bare [03205] him.
	King James	A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
a grief--or cross, vexation (compare Pro 17:21; Pro 10:1).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

a grief--or cross, vexation (compare Pro 17:21; Pro 10:1).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Compare Pro 17:21. Here is added a reference to the sorrow which the folly of a child brings especially to the mother.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Compare Pro 17:21. Here is added a reference to the sorrow which the folly of a child brings especially to the mother.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The series of proverbs, v. 25-18:2, begins and closes in the same way as the preceding, and only Pro 17:26 stands by itself without apparent connection. This verse begins connecting itself with Pro 17:21 : A grief to his father is a foolish son, And a bitter woe for her that bare him. The ἅπ. λεγ. ממר is formed from מרר (to be bitter, properly harsh), as מכס from כּסס. The Syr. and Targ. change the subst. into participles; some codd. also have ממר (after the forms מחל, מסב, מפר, מרע), but as may be expected in 25a, מבעיס. The dat. obj. instead of the accus. may be possible; the verse immediately following furnishes a sufficient example of this.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

The series of proverbs, v. 25-18:2, begins and closes in the same way as the preceding, and only Pro 17:26 stands by itself without apparent connection.

This verse begins connecting itself with Pro 17:21 :

A grief to his father is a foolish son,

And a bitter woe for her that bare him.

The ἅπ. λεγ. ממר is formed from מרר (to be bitter, properly harsh), as מכס from כּסס. The Syr. and Targ. change the subst. into participles; some codd. also have ממר (after the forms מחל, מסב, מפר, מרע), but as may be expected in 25a, מבעיס. The dat. obj. instead of the accus. may be possible; the verse immediately following furnishes a sufficient example of this.

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