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Verse 25. A foolish son is a vexation to his father, and a bitterness to her that bare him.

Verse 25. A foolish sonne is a vexation to his father, and a bitternesse to her that bare him.

His contemptuous and disobedient behaviour to his parents, and other lewd conditions, and (as it often falleth out) his unhappy estate, doth fill the hearts both of his father and mother with anger, and with great grief and sorrow. See Chap. 10. verse 1.

HIs contemptuous and disobedient behauiour to his parents, and other leaud conditions, and (as it often falleth out) his vnhappy estate, doth fill the hearts both of his father and mother with anger, and with great griefe and sorrow. See Chap. 10. verse 1.

Verse 26. It is not good even to condemn the righteous, nor to strike ingenuous men for equity.

Verse 26. It is not good euen to condemne the righteous, nor to strike ingenuous men for equitie.

IT is not good] but evil and hurtful [to condemn the righteous] to speak against or pass sentence upon harmless men with our lips; or so much as to censure them in our hearts: [nor to smite ingenuous men] to punish well disposed and faithful persons, whom the Scripture, in regard of the free spirit that is in them, whereby they are preserved from the power and bondage of sin, and in regard of the dignity that grace hath advanced them unto, doth call by the name