John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 19:13

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father, etc.] Or, “the calamities of his father”f546; he brings them to him. A very great affliction he is, and which has many distresses and sorrows in it; as loss of reputation and credit in his family, which is sunk by his behaviour, instead of being supported and increased; loss of substance, through extravagance and riotous living, and the ruin of his soul and body by his wicked practices; (see <201001>Proverbs 10:1); and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping; or like the dropping of rain, in a rainy day, into a house out of repair, and which is very uncomfortable to, the inhabitants of it; (see <202715>Proverbs 27:15). Such are the contentions of a peevish, ill natured, and brawling wife, who is always scolding; and which is a continual vexation to a man, and renders him very uneasy in life: such a continual dropping was Xantippe to Socrates, who teased him night and day with her brawls and contentionsf547. A great unhappiness each of these must be!

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