Proverbs 19:13
“A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
A foolish son is the calamity of his father,.... Or, "the calamities of his father" (q); he brings them to him. A very…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Calamity - The Hebrew word is plural (as in Psa 57:1; Psa 91:3), and seems to express the multiplied and manifold sorrow…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714
It is an instance of the vanity of the world that we are liable to the greatest grief in those things wherein we promise…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
continual Lit. thrusting, where one drop follows so closely upon another as to thrust it forward. "In quo gutta guttam…
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