Proverbios 19:13

13 El hijo necio es una calamidad para su padre;
una esposa que busca pleitos es tan molesta como una gotera continua.

Proverbios 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!

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Proverbios 19:13 In-Context

11 Las personas sensatas no pierden los estribos;
se ganan el respeto pasando por alto las ofensas.

12 El enojo del rey es como el rugido del león,
pero su favor es como el rocío sobre el pasto.

13 El hijo necio es una calamidad para su padre;
una esposa que busca pleitos es tan molesta como una gotera continua.

14 Los padres
pueden dar en herencia a sus hijos casa y fortuna,
pero solo el Señor
puede dar una esposa comprensiva.

15 Los perezosos duermen profundamente,
pero su ocio los deja con hambre.