Proverbs 19:13-14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 19:13

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 to no study or business, that will take no advice, that lives a lewd, loose, rakish life, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 19:14

Note, 1. A discreet and virtuous wife is a choice gift of God's providence to a man?a wife that is prudent, in opposition to one that is contentious, Prov. 18:13. For, though a wife that is continually finding fault may think it is her wit and wisdom to be so, it is really her folly; a prudent wife is meek and quiet, and makes the best of every thing. If a man has such a wife, let him not ascribe it to the wisdom of his own choice or his own management (for the wisest have been deceived both... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father ,.... Or, "the calamities of his father" F17 הוות "calamitates", Vatablus; "aerumnae", Piscator, Michaelis; "causa aerumnarum", Junius & Tremellius. ; 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,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 19:14

Houses and riches are the inheritance of fathers ,.... Which they are careful to provide and leave to their children. This they may and often do, build or purchase houses, and procure great riches, and put their children into the possession of them; and , or but, a prudent wife is from the Lord ; one that behaves well to her husband, massages the affairs of her house with wisdom, and brings up her children in all orderly manner: such a wife no man has from the care and provision... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 19:13

The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping - The man who has got such a wife is like a tenant who has got a cottage with a bad roof through every part of which the rain either drops or pours. He can neither sit, stand work, nor sleep, without being exposed to these droppings. God help the man who is in such a case, with house or wife! read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 19:14

A prudent wife is from the Lord - One who has a good understanding, משכלת אשה ishshah mascaleth ; who avoids complaining, though she may often have cause for it. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 19:8-16

Making the most of ourself and our life How shall we most truly "love our own soul" but by making all we can make of the nature and the life God has entrusted to our care! And how shall we do this? Surely by "getting wisdom" and "keeping understanding." To look at the subject negatively and, beginning at the bottom, to take an upward path, we remark— I. THAT CONTEMPTUOUS CARELESSNESS MEANS CERTAIN RUIN . "He that despiseth his ways shall die." The man who never pauses to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 19:8-17

Maxims of intelligence I. THE WORTH OF INTELLIGENCE . 1 . It is self-conservative ( Proverbs 19:8 ). We all love our own soul or life in any healthy state of body and mind. We all want to live as long as possible. It is natural to desire to live again beyond the grave. Then let us understand that there is no way to these ends except that of intelligence, in the highest and in every sense. 2 . It is the source of happiness. ( Proverbs 19:8 .) The truth is very... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 19:13

With the first clause we may compare Proverbs 10:1 ; Proverbs 15:20 ; Proverbs 17:21 , Proverbs 17:25 . Calamity in the Hebrew is in the plural number ( contritiones, Pagn.), as if to mark the many and continued sorrows which a bad son brings upon his father, how he causes evil after evil to harass and distress him. The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping (comp. Proverbs 27:15 ). The flat roofs of Eastern houses, formed of planks loosely joined and covered with a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are an inheritance of ( from ) fathers . Any man, worthy or not, may inherit property from progenitors; any man may bargain for a wife, or give a dowry to his son to further his matrimonial prospects. But a prudent wife is from the Lord. She is a special gift of God, a proof of his gracious care for his servants (see on Proverbs 18:22 ). Septuagint, παρὰ δὲ κυρίου ἀρμόζεται γυνὴ ἀνδρί , "It is by the Lord that a man is matched with a woman." There... read more

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