Proverbs 27:15

Amplified Bible

A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious (quarrelsome) woman are alike;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
An endless dripping on a rainy dayand a nagging wife are alike;

Hebrew Names Version
A continual dropping on a rainy day And a contentious wife are alike:

King James Version
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

English Standard Version
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

New American Standard Bible
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;

New Century Version
A quarreling wife is as bothersome as a continual dripping on a rainy day.

World English Bible
A continual dropping on a rainy day And a contentious wife are alike:

Geneva Bible (1587)
A continual dropping in the day of raine, and a contentious woman are alike.

Legacy Standard Bible
A constant dripping on a day of steady rainAnd a contentious woman are alike;

Berean Standard Bible
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike-

Contemporary English Version
The steady dripping of rain and the nagging of a wife are one and the same.

Complete Jewish Bible
A leak that keeps dripping on a rainy day and the nagging of a wife are the same —

Darby Translation
A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:

Easy-to-Read Version
A complaining wife is like water that never stops dripping on a rainy day.

George Lamsa Translation
Like a continual dripping on a rainy day, so is a quarrelsome woman.

Good News Translation
A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip on a rainy day.

Lexham English Bible
Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike.

Literal Translation
Drops that never cease on a rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A brawlynge woman and the rofe of the house droppynge in a raynie daye, maye well be compared together.

American Standard Version
A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

Bible in Basic English
Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;

King James Version (1611)
A continuall dropping in a very rainie day, and a contentious woman, are alike.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
A brawling woman and the roofe of the house dropping in a raynie day, may well be compared together.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In long-suffering is prosperity to kings, and a soft tongue breaks the bones.

English Revised Version
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Roouys droppynge in the dai of coold, and a womman ful of chidyng ben comparisond.

Update Bible Version
A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

Webster's Bible Translation
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

New English Translation
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike.

New King James Version
A continual dripping on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;

New Living Translation
A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day.

New Life Bible
An arguing woman is like water falling drop by drop on a day it is raining.

New Revised Standard
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A continuous dripping on a day of downpour, and a contentious wife, are alike:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

Revised Standard Version
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;

Young's Literal Translation
A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

THE MESSAGE
A nagging spouse is like the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet; You can't turn it off, and you can't get away from it.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;

Contextual Overview

¹⁵A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious (quarrelsome) woman are alike; ¹⁶Whoever attempts to restrain her [criticism] might as well try to stop the wind, And grasps oil with his right hand.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A continual: Proverbs 19:13, Proverbs 21:9, Proverbs 21:19, Proverbs 25:24, Job 14:19

Reciprocal: Proverbs 7:11 - loud Proverbs 12:4 - she Proverbs 30:23 - an odious

Cross-References

Luke 15:22
"But the father said to his servants, 'Quickly bring out the best robe [for the guest of honor] and put it on him; and give him a ring for his hand, and sandals for his feet.

Luke 20:46
"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes [displaying their prominence], and love respectful greetings in the [crowded] market places, and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A continual dropping in a very rainy day,.... That is, through the roof of a house which is not well covered, or which lets in rain by one means or another; so that in a thorough rainy day it keeps continually dropping, to the great annoyance of those within, and which is very uncomfortable to them: it is observed g that rain is called by the name in the text, because a man is shut up under a roof falls; and continuing long he is shut up within doors and cannot come out;

and a contentious woman are alike; troublesome and uncomfortable; as in a rainy day, a man cannot go abroad with any pleasure, and if the rain is continually dropping upon him in his house he cannot sit there with any comfort; and so a contentious woman, that is always scolding and brawling, a man has no comfort at home; and if he goes abroad he is jeered and laughed at on her account by others; and perhaps she the more severely falls upon him when he returns for having been abroad; see Proverbs 19:13.

g David de Pomis, Lexic. fol. 107. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Continual dropping - Here, as in the marginal reference, the flat, earthen roof of Eastern houses, always liable to cracks and leakage, supplies the groundwork of the similitude.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 27:15. A continual dropping — See Proverbs 19:13.