Proverbs 19:13
Foolish children can cause disasters to happen to their parents. A wife who constantly ◄nags/quarrels with► her husband is as annoying as water that continually drips [MET].
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
2 Samuel 13:1David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. Another of David’s sons, Amnon, was attracted to Tamar.
Proverbs 10:1These are more proverbs/wise sayings from Solomon: If children are wise, they cause their parents to be happy; but if children are foolish, they cause their parents to be very sad.
Proverbs 17:17Friends love others all the time, and relatives are able to help us when we have troubles.
Proverbs 17:25Children who are foolish cause their father to be sad and also cause their mother to be very sorrowful.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to live alone in a desert than to live with a wife who is always nagging and complaining.
Proverbs 27:15Having a wife that is constantly nagging is as bad as listening to rain continually dripping on a rainy day.
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 →