Proverbs 19:13

Dropping — Are like rain continually dropping upon an house.

Related Commentaries of 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...
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 hou...
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...
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...
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 dr...
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...
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 continua...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Fool ] read, 'rich' ( Proverbs 28:6 ).
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Arabic proverb is, 'Three things render a house uninhabitable —tak (rain leaking through), nak (a wife's nagging), and bah (bugs).'
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.)
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...
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 th...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 co...
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. MAI...
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 wh...
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...
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 stea...
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 ; Prov...

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 19:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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