Proverbs 19:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. ”

Proverbs 19:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Calamity - The Hebrew word is plural (as in Psalms 57:1 ; Psalms 91:3 ), and seems to express the multiplied and manifold sorrow caused by the foolish son. Continual dropping - The irritati...
Proverbs 19:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual (e) dropping. (e) As rain that drops and rots the house.
Proverbs 19:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. Proverbs 1...
Proverbs 19:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

is the calamity . is. great trouble to. Hebrew "troubles" (plural) for great trouble. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), put for action of the foolish son which brings it on.
Proverbs 19:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping - The man who has got such a wife is like a...
Proverbs 19:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The contentions of a wife, &c.— The author of the Observations remarks, that it is no wonder the easterns sleep on the tops of houses only in summer, since, however agreeable their arbours an...
Proverbs 19:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping - through the roof of a house. A man ca...
Proverbs 19:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Fool ] read, 'rich' ( Proverbs 28:6 ).
Proverbs 19:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A continual dropping. — As of the rain leaking through the flat roof of an eastern house on a wet day. (Comp. 27:15.)
Proverbs 19:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb...
Proverbs 19:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:7 . This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been l...
Proverbs 19:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Slothfulness...
Proverbs 19:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father ,.... Or, "the calamities of his father" q; he brings them to him. A very great affliction he is, and which has many distresses and sorrows in it; as lo...
Proverbs 19:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping. Ver. 13. A foolish son is the calamity of his father. ] Children are certain cares, but unc...
Proverbs 19:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

A foolish son , &c. Two things make a man exceeding unhappy, a dissolute son, and a contentious wife: for the former is a perpetual grief to his father, to see him likely to prove the utter dest...
Proverbs 19:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. It is an instance of the vanity of the world that we are liable to the gre...
Proverbs 19:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Are like rain continually dropping upon a house, which by degrees marreth the house and household stuff, and driveth the inhabitants out of it. He compareth her to a continual dropping, because of...
Proverbs 19:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 19:13 . Calamity . The word so translated is in the plural form, so as to express the continuance of the trouble. MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 19:13-14 ; Proverbs 19:...
Proverbs 19:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 19:1 . Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of...
Proverbs 19:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walkth in his integrity. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7 , Proverbs 19:22 , rash, which signifies "poor" in oppositi...
Proverbs 19:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 13. A foolish son is the calamity of his father, his mischievous and sinful acts are like stroke upon stroke, they strike his father with a steady beating; and the contentions of a wife, her q...
Proverbs 19:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 18:33 ; Ecclesiastes 2:18 ; Ecclesiastes 2:19 ; Job 14:19 ; Proverbs 10:1 ; Proverbs 15:20 ; Proverbs 17:21 ; Proverbs 17:25 ; Proverbs 21:19 ; Proverbs 21:9 ; Proverbs 25:24 ; P...
Proverbs 19:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Dropping — Are like rain continually dropping upon an house.

Proverbs 19:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 19:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 19:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 19:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 19:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 19:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 19:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 19:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 19:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 19:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 19:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 19:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes