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CALAMITY - The Hebrew word is plural (as in Psalms 57:1; Psalms 91:3),
and seems to express the multiplied and manifold sorrow caused by the
foolish son.
CONTINUAL DROPPING - The irritating, unceasing...
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CHAPTER 19:1-19 FURTHER PROVERBS ON PERSONAL INSTRUCTION
One may be poor, but walking in integrity, he is far ahead of him who
is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Then we find proverbs about
frett...
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PROVERBS 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the
attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral
government of the world which we find in Job.
PROVERBS 19:1. FOO...
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IS THE CALAMITY. is. great trouble to. Hebrew "troubles" (plural) for
great trouble. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), put for action
of the foolish son which brings it on....
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_continual_ Lit. THRUSTING, where one drop follows so closely upon
another as to thrust it forward. "In quo gutta guttam trudit," Maur.;
"Tecta jugiter perstillantia litigiosa mulier," Vulg. Comp. Pro...
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THE CONTENTIONS OF A WIFE, &C.— The author of the _Observations_
remarks, that it is no wonder the easterns sleep on the tops of houses
only in summer, since, however agreeable their arbours and wicke...
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TEXT Proverbs 19:11-20
11.
The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; And it is his glory
to pass over a transgression.
12.
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as...
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a
wife are a continual dropping.
THE CONTENTIONS OF A WIFE ARE A CONTINUAL DROPPING - through the roof
of a house. A man cannot e...
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1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6)....
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The Arabic proverb is, 'Three things render a house uninhabitable
_—tak_ (rain leaking through), _nak_ (a wife's nagging), and _bah_
(bugs).'...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 19
V1 A man may be poor but he still remains honest.
He is better than the fool, whose words are false....
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This man has a foolish son, and a wife who argues. He has many
troubles.
His son is evil and hates wisdom. The man suffers because his son is
evil.
The wife who argues always upsets her husband. Wat...
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A CONTINUAL DROPPING. — As of the rain leaking through the flat roof
of an eastern house on a wet day. (Comp. 27:15.)...
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הַוֹּ֣ת לְ֭ אָבִיו בֵּ֣ן כְּסִ֑יל וְ
דֶ֥לֶף
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CHAPTER 20
HUMAN FREEDOM
"The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth
against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3
THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb in
th...
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Verse Proverbs 19:7. This is the only case in this first collection of
proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely
that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been lost...
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A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of
a wife [are] a continual (e) dropping.
(e) As rain that drops and rots the house....
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_Through. It cannot be endured long. (Calmet) --- Dos est uxoria
lites. (Ovid, Art. 1.) --- "Quarrels are a wife's dowry." _...
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a
wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of
fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Slothfulness...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.
In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to
avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be
followe...
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A FOOLISH SON [IS] THE CALAMITY OF HIS FATHER,.... Or, "the calamities
of his father" q; he brings them to him. A very great affliction he
is, and which has many distresses and sorrows in it; as loss...
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A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of
a wife [are] a continual dropping.
Ver. 13. _A foolish son is the calamity of his father._] Children are
certain cares, but uncer...
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_A foolish son_, &c. Two things make a man exceeding unhappy, a
dissolute son, and a contentious wife: for the former is a perpetual
grief to his father, to see him likely to prove the utter destructi...
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V. 13. A FOOLISH SON IS THE CALAMITY OF HIS FATHER, his mischievous
and sinful acts are like stroke upon stroke, they strike his father
with a steady beating; AND THE CONTENTIONS OF A WIFE, her quarre...
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Are like rain continually dropping upon a house, which by degrees
marreth the house and household stuff, and driveth the inhabitants out
of it. He compareth her to a CONTINUAL DROPPING, because of tha...
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Proverbs 19:13 foolish H3684 son H1121 ruin H1942 father H1
contentions H4079 wife H802 continual H2956 (H8802) dri
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: If we keep God's Word, God's Word will keep us from all
things that are really hurtful. Those who despise the ways of His W...
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Proverbs 19:1. _Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,_ in
simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse,
and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of me...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 19:13 Verse Proverbs 19:13 balances v.
Proverbs 19:14 by recognizing that
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 19:13. CALAMITY. The word so translated is in the plural
form, so as to express the continuance of the trouble.
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 19:13; Proverbs 19:18_
DOM
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 19:1
BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKTH IN HIS INTEGRITY. The word for "poor"
is, here and in Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 19:22, _rash, _which signifie
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Better is the poor that walks in his integrity [or in honesty], than
he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be
without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with...
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2 Samuel 18:33; Ecclesiastes 2:18; Ecclesiastes 2:19; Job 14:19;...
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Dropping — Are like rain continually dropping upon an house....