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<p>Observe, 1. Wicked children are an affliction to both their parents. They are an occasion of <i>anger</i> to the father (so the word signifies), because they contemn his authority, but of sorrow and <i>bitterness</i> to the mother, because they abuse her tenderness. The parents, being joint-sufferers, should therefore bring mutual comfort to bear them up under it, and strive to make it as easy as they can, the mother to mollify the father’s anger, the father to alleviate the mother’s grief. 2. That Solomon often repeats this remark, probably because it was his own case; however, it is a common case.</p>
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