Sprueche 19:13

13 Ein törichter Sohn ist Verderben für seinen Vater; und die Zänkereien eines Weibes sind eine beständige Traufe.

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Sprueche 19:13 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father
Or, "the calamities of his father" F17; 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 ( 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 ( 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 contentions F18. A great unhappiness each of these must be!


FOOTNOTES:

F17 (twwh) "calamitates", Vatablus; "aerumnae", Piscator, Michaelis; "causa aerumnarum", Junius & Tremellius.
F18 A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 1. c. 17.

Sprueche 19:13 In-Context

11 Die Einsicht eines Menschen macht ihn langmütig, und sein Ruhm ist es, Vergehung zu übersehen.
12 Des Königs Zorn ist wie das Knurren eines jungen Löwen, aber sein Wohlgefallen wie Tau auf das Gras.
13 Ein törichter Sohn ist Verderben für seinen Vater; und die Zänkereien eines Weibes sind eine beständige Traufe.
14 Haus und Gut sind ein Erbteil der Väter, aber eine einsichtsvolle Frau kommt von Jehova.
15 Faulheit versenkt in tiefen Schlaf, und eine lässige Seele wird hungern.
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