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Text -- Proverbs 17:21 (NET)

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17:21 Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

JFB: Pro 17:21 - -- (Compare Pro 23:24). Different words are rendered by "fool," both denoting stupidity and impiety.

(Compare Pro 23:24). Different words are rendered by "fool," both denoting stupidity and impiety.

TSK: Pro 17:21 - -- that : Pro 17:25, Pro 10:1, Pro 15:20, Pro 19:13; Gen 26:34; 1Sa 2:32-35, 1Sa 8:3; 2Sa 18:33 hath : Pro 23:15, Pro 23:16; 2Co 2:3; Phm 1:19, Phm 1:20;...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Poole: Pro 17:21 - -- A fool not a natural, but a wilful fool, or a wicked son. The father and consequently the mother also. Hath no joy which parents usually have in ...

A fool not a natural, but a wilful fool, or a wicked son.

The father and consequently the mother also.

Hath no joy which parents usually have in the birth of a child, and especially of a son; but hath great cause of sorrow, the contrary being implied in this and such-like expressions, as in Scripture, as Pro 10:2 , &c., so also in profane authors; whose words see in my Latin Synopsis.

Gill: Pro 17:21 - -- He that begetteth a fool doth it to his sorrow,.... As it proves in the issue; though it was joy to him when a man child was born, and took delight i...

He that begetteth a fool doth it to his sorrow,.... As it proves in the issue; though it was joy to him when a man child was born, and took delight in him while in infancy and childhood, and promised himself much happiness in him when at years of discretion; but, instead of that, he departs from his education principles, despises all parental counsels and advice, and goes into all the extravagance of sin and folly; which is an heartbreaking to his godly and religious parents; for this is to be understood; not of an idiot, but of a wicked son, taking bad courses;

and the father of a fool hath no joy; in his son, but sorrow, and has scarce any joy or pleasure in anything else in all his enjoyments; the trouble he is filled with on his account embitters all he has, that he can take no satisfaction, or have any comfort of life; the concern for his son is uppermost in his thoughts, and hinders him from taking that pleasure which otherwise he might enjoy.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 17:21 Parents of fools, who had hoped for children who would be a credit to the family, find only bitter disappointment (cf. TEV “nothing but sadness ...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

MHCC: Pro 17:21 - --This speaks very plainly what many wise and good men feel very strongly, how grievous it is to have a foolish, wicked child.

Matthew Henry: Pro 17:21 - -- 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 wicke...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 17:16-21 - -- We take Pro 17:16-21 together. This group beings with a proverb of the heartless, and ends with one of the perverse-hearted; and between these there...

Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16 Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...

Constable: Pro 17:1-28 - --2. Peacemakers and troublemakers ch. 17 17:8 The owner of the bribe is the person who gives it. A bribe is an effective tool. It works like a charm. T...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 17 (Chapter Introduction) Overview

Poole: Proverbs 17 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 17 Of sacrifices ; of the remainders of sacrifices, of which they used to make feasts; of which See Poole "Pro 7:14" . Or, of slain be...

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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