Observe, 1. Wicked children are an affliction to both their parents.
They are an occasion of anger to the father (so the word signifies),
because they contemn his authority, but of sorrow and bitterness 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.