Proverbs - 19:13 Meaning

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

King James Version (KJV)

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:11-13 He attains the most true glory who endeavours most steadily to overcome evil with good. 12. Christ is a King, whose wrath against his enemies will be as the roaring of a lion, and his favour to his people as the refreshing dew. 13. It shows the vanity of the world, that we are liable to the greatest griefs where we promise ourselves the greatest comfort.

“This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;”

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