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Proverbs 19:13
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A foolish son is his father’s ruin,and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the quarrels of a wife are a constant dripping.
A foolish child brings disaster to a father, and a quarreling wife is like dripping water.
A foolish (ungodly) son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a [quarrelsome] wife are like a constant dripping [of water].
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
A foolish sonne is the calamitie of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continuall dropping.
A foolish son is destruction to his father,And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.
A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
A foolish son brings disgrace to his father. A nagging wife goes on and on like the drip, drip, drip of the rain.
A son who is a fool is his father's ruin, and a nagging wife is like a leak that keeps dripping.
A foolish son brings a flood of troubles to his father, and a complaining wife is like the constant dripping of water.
A foolish son is a disgrace to his father; and the contentions of a wife are like drippings.
Stupid children can bring their parents to ruin. A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip.
A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.
A foolish son is a ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling a never ending dripping.
An vndiscrete sonne is ye heuynes of his father, & a braulynge wife is like the topp of an house, where thorow it is euer droppynge.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A foolish sonne is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continuall dropping.
An vndiscrete sonne is the heauinesse of his father, and a brawlyng wyfe is like the toppe of an house wherthrough it is euer dropping.
A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows paid out of the hire of a harlot are not pure.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
The sorewe of the fadir is a fonned sone; and roofes droppynge contynueli is a womman ful of chiding.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.
A foolish son is the ruin of his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.
A foolish child is a calamity to a father; a quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping.
A foolish son destroys his father. The arguing of a wife is like water falling drop by drop all the time.
A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Engulfing ruin to his father, is a son that is a dullard, - and, a continuous dripping, are the contentions of a wife.
A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
A calamity to his father [is] a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
A parent is worn to a frazzle by a stupid child; a nagging spouse is a leaky faucet.
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
foolish: Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 15:20, Proverbs 17:21, Proverbs 17:25, 2 Samuel 13:1 - 2 Samuel 18:33, Ecclesiastes 2:18, Ecclesiastes 2:19
the contentions: Proverbs 21:9, Proverbs 21:19, Proverbs 25:24, Proverbs 27:15, Job 14:19
Reciprocal: Proverbs 12:4 - virtuous Proverbs 14:1 - the foolish Proverbs 14:35 - king's Proverbs 30:23 - an odious Matthew 19:10 - General
Cross-References
And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.
And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grievous,
And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,
And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.
And Lot went out to them to the entrance, and shut the door after him,
Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man: let me now bring them out to you; and do to them as is good in your sight: only, to these men do nothing; for therefore have they come under the shadow of my roof.
And they said, Back there! And they said [again], This one came to sojourn, and he must be a judge? Now we will deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man—on Lot; and drew near to break the door.
And the men said to Lot, Whom hast thou here besides? a son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city—bring [them] out of the place.
And as the dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are present, lest thou perish in the iniquity of the city.
And as he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him; and they led him out, and set him without the city.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 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 r. A great unhappiness each of these must be!
q הוות "calamitates", Vatablus; "aerumnae", Piscator, Michaelis; "causa aerumnarum", Junius & Tremellius. r A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 1. c. 17.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Calamity - The Hebrew word is plural (as in Psalms 57:1; Psalms 91:3), and seems to express the multiplied and manifold sorrow caused by the foolish son.
Continual dropping - The irritating, unceasing, sound of the fall, drop after drop, of water through the chinks in the roof.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 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!
