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Proverbs 17

Prov. 17:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He that begetteth
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
a fool
kciyl (Hebrew #3684)
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish).
Pronounce: kes-eel'
Origin: from 3688
doeth it to his sorrow
tuwgah (Hebrew #8424)
depression (of spirits); concretely a grief
KJV usage: heaviness, sorrow.
Pronounce: too-gaw'
Origin: from 3013
: and the father
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
of a fool
nabal (Hebrew #5036)
stupid; wicked (especially impious)
KJV usage: fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.
Pronounce: naw-bawl'
Origin: from 5034
hath no joy
samach (Hebrew #8055)
probably to brighten up, i.e. (figuratively) be (causatively, make) blithe or gleesome
KJV usage: cheer up, be (make) glad, (have, make) joy(-ful), be (make) merry, (cause to, make to) rejoice, X very.
Pronounce: saw-makh'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 17:25• 25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him. (Prov. 17:25)
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Prov. 10:1• 1The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother. (Prov. 10:1)
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Prov. 15:20• 20A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish man despiseth his mother. (Prov. 15:20)
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Prov. 19:13• 13A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. (Prov. 19:13)
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Gen. 26:34• 34And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. (Gen. 26:34)
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1 Sam. 2:32‑35• 32And thou shalt see an oppressor in my habitation, amidst all the good that shall be done to Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.
 33And the man of thine whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to cause thine eyes to fail and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house shall die in their vigour.
 34And this shall be the sign to thee, which shall come upon thy two sons, upon Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die, both of them.
 35And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind; and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed continually. (1 Sam. 2:32‑35)
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1 Sam. 8:3• 3And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice. (1 Sam. 8:3)
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2 Sam. 18:33• 33And the king was much moved, and went up to the upper chamber of the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said thus: O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died in thy stead, O Absalom, my son, my son! (2 Sam. 18:33)
hath.
Prov. 23:15‑16• 15My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
 16and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things. (Prov. 23:15‑16)
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2 Cor. 2:3• 3And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all. (2 Cor. 2:3)
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Philem. 19‑20• 19*I* Paul have written it with mine own hand; *I* will repay it: that I say not to thee that thou owest even thine own self also to me.
 20Yea, brother, *I* would have profit of *thee* in the Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ. (Philem. 19‑20)
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3 John 4• 4I have no greater joy than these things that I hear of my children walking in the truth. (3 John 4)
• David’s grief over Absalom is proof of its truthfulness (2 Sam. 18:33). See also ver. 25. (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow, and the father of a vile mang hath no joy.

JND Translation Notes

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Nabal. see Note l, ver. 7.