Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 17:21

21 † He that begetteth a fool , doth it to his sorrow, and the father of a fool hath no joy .

Not a Natural, but a wilful fool, or a wicked Son.

And consequently the Mother also.

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 Prov. 10. 2, &c. so also in profane Authors: whose words see in my Latin Synopsis.

Marginal references: * Ch. 10. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]