Proverbs Chapter 19 verse 13 Holy Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
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A calamity to his father `is' a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife `are' a continual dropping.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - With the first clause we may compare Proverbs 10:1; Proverbs 15:20; Proverbs 17:21, 25. Calamity in the Hebrew is in the plural number (contritiones, Pagn.), as if to mark the many and continued sorrows which a bad son brings upon his father, how he causes evil after evil to harass and distress him. The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping (comp. Proverbs 27:15). The flat roofs of Eastern houses, formed of planks loosely joined and covered with a coating of clay or plaster, were always subject to leakage in heavy rains. The irritating altercations and bickering of a cross-grained wife are compared to the continuous drip of water through an imperfectly constructed roof. Tecta jugiter perstillantia, as the Vulgate has it. The Scotch say, "A leaky house and a scolding wife are two bad companions." The two clauses of the verse are coordinate, expressing two facts that render home life miserable and unendurable, viz. the misbehaviour of a son and the ill temper of a wife. The Septuagint, following a different reading, has, "Nor are offerings from a harlot's hire pure," which is an allusion to Deuteronomy 23:18.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) A continual dropping.--As of the rain leaking through the flat roof of an eastern house on a wet day. (Comp. 27:15.)
