A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
Calamity - The Hebrew word is plural (as in Psa 57:1; Psa 91:3), and seems to express the multiplied and manifold sorrow caused by the foolish son. Continual dropping - The irritating, unceasing,…
Matthew Henry
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…
Cambridge Bible
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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