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Selected Verse: Proverbs 19:13 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 19:13 |
King James |
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
calamity--literally, "calamities," varied and many.
continual dropping--a perpetual annoyance, wearing out patience. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 son.
Continual dropping - The irritating, unceasing, sound of the fall, drop after drop, of water through the chinks in the roof. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
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, cf. Pro 10:3. Line 2a is expanded, Pro 27:15, into a distich. The dropping is טרד, properly striking (cf. Arab. tirad, from tarad III, hostile assault) when it pours itself forth, stroke (drop) after stroke = constantly, or with unbroken continuity. Lightning-flashes are called (Jer Berachoth, p. 114, Shitomir's ed.) טורדין, opp. מפסיקין, when they do not follow in intervals, but constantly flash; and b. Bechoroth 44a; דומעות, weeping eyes, דולפות, dropping eyes, and טורדות, eyes always flowing, are distinguished. An old interpreter (vid., R. Ascher in Pesachim II No. 21) explains דלף טרד by: "which drops, and drops, and always drops." An Arab proverb which I once heard from Wetzstein, says that there are three things which make our house intolerable: âlṭaḳḳ (= âldhalf), the trickling through of rain; âlnaḳḳ, the contention of the wife; and âlbaḳḳ, bugs. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Dropping - Are like rain continually dropping upon an house. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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! |
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
1 To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.