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13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Proverbs 19:13

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Matthew Henry

(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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