Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows paid out of the hire of a harlot are not pure.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
In Context
12The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favour.
14Fathers divide house and substance to their children: but a wife is suited to a man by the Lord.
Cross References
2 Samuel 13:1And it happened after this that Abessalom the son of David had a very beautiful sister, and her name was Themar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
Proverbs 10:1A wise son makes his father glad: but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.
Proverbs 17:17Have thou a friend for every time, and let brethren be useful in distress; for on this account are they born.
Proverbs 17:25A foolish son is a cause of anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.
Proverbs 27:15On a stormy day drops of rain drive a man out of his house; so also does a railing woman drive a man out of his own house.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:13
12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. This is to the same purport with what we had ch. xvi. 14, 15 , and the design of it is, 1. To make kings wise and considerate in dispensing their frowns and smiles. They are not like those of common persons; their frowns are very terrible and their smiles very comfortable, and therefore it concerns them to be very careful that they never frighten a good man from doing well with their frowns, nor ever give countenance to a… Read the whole commentary →