13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 comfort. It is as it proves. What greater temporal comfort can a man have than a good wife and good children? Yet, 1. A foolish son is a great affliction, and may make a man wish a thousand times he had been written childless. A son that will apply himself…
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