
Text -- Proverbs 19:13 (NET)




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Wesley -> Pro 19:13
Are like rain continually dropping upon an house.
Literally, "calamities," varied and many.

A perpetual annoyance, wearing out patience.
Clarke -> Pro 19:13
Clarke: Pro 19:13 - -- The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping - The man who has got such a wife is like a tenant who has got a cottage with a bad roof through ...
The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping - The man who has got such a wife is like a tenant who has got a cottage with a bad roof through every part of which the rain either drops or pours. He can neither sit, stand work, nor sleep, without being exposed to these droppings. God help the man who is in such a case, with house or wife!
TSK -> Pro 19:13
TSK: Pro 19:13 - -- foolish : Pro 10:1, Pro 15:20, Pro 17:21, Pro 17:25; 2Sam. 13:1-18:33; Ecc 2:18, Ecc 2:19
the contentions : Pro 21:9, Pro 21:19, Pro 25:24, Pro 27:15;...

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Barnes -> Pro 19:13
Barnes: Pro 19:13 - -- Calamity - The Hebrew word is plural (as in Psa 57:1; Psa 91:3), and seems to express the multiplied and manifold sorrow caused by the foolish ...
Poole -> Pro 19:13
Poole: Pro 19:13 - -- 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 c...
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 that inseparable union and necessary cohabitation of husband and wife together, notwithstanding such contentions.
Haydock -> Pro 19:13
Haydock: Pro 19:13 - -- Through. It cannot be endured long. (Calmet) ---
Dos est uxoria lites. (Ovid, Art. 1.) ---
"Quarrels are a wife's dowry."
Through. It cannot be endured long. (Calmet) ---
Dos est uxoria lites. (Ovid, Art. 1.) ---
"Quarrels are a wife's dowry."
Gill -> Pro 19:13
Gill: Pro 19:13 - -- 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 whic...
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 loss of reputation and credit in his family, which is sunk by his behaviour, instead of being supported and increased; loss of substance, through extravagance and riotous living, and the ruin of his soul and body by his wicked practices; see Pro 10:1;
and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping; or like the dropping of rain, in a rainy day, into a house out of repair, and which is very uncomfortable to, the inhabitants of it; see Pro 27:15. Such are the contentions of a peevish, ill natured, and brawling wife, who is always scolding; and which is a continual vexation to a man, and renders him very uneasy in life: such a continual dropping was Xantippe to Socrates, who teased him night and day with her brawls and contentions r. A great unhappiness each of these must be!

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NET Notes: Pro 19:13 The LXX makes this moralistic statement for 13b: “vows paid out of hire of a harlot are not pure.” It is not based on the MT and attempts ...
Geneva Bible -> Pro 19:13
Geneva Bible: Pro 19:13 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 ...

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MHCC -> Pro 19:13
MHCC: Pro 19:13 - --It shows the vanity of the world, that we are liable to the greatest griefs where we promise ourselves the greatest comfort.
Matthew Henry -> Pro 19:13
Matthew Henry: Pro 19:13 - -- It is an instance of the vanity of the world that we are liable to the greatest grief in those things wherein we promise ourselves the greatest comf...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 19:13
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 19:13 - --
13 A foolish son is destruction for his father,
And a continual dropping are the contentions of a wife.
Regarding הוּת , vid ., at Pro 17:4, ...
Constable -> Pro 10:1--22:17; Pro 19:1--22:17
Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16
Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...
