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Proverbs 19:13

A foolish child brings disaster to a father, and a quarreling wife is like dripping water.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Family;   Fool;   Strife;   Wife;   Women;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Contentious Woman;   Evil;   Family;   Home;   Parental;   Sorrow;   Strife;   Unity-Strife;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Children;   Contention;   Foolishness;   Marriage;   Parents;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children, Wicked;   Fools;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wife;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - House;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Family;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Calamity;   Drop, Dropping;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A foolish sonne is the calamitie of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continuall dropping.
Christian Standard Bible®
A foolish son is his father’s ruin,and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.
Hebrew Names Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
Easy-to-Read Version
A foolish son brings a flood of troubles to his father, and a complaining wife is like the constant dripping of water.
Amplified Bible
A foolish (ungodly) son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a [quarrelsome] wife are like a constant dripping [of water].
American Standard Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Contemporary English Version
A foolish son brings disgrace to his father. A nagging wife goes on and on like the drip, drip, drip of the rain.
Complete Jewish Bible
A son who is a fool is his father's ruin, and a nagging wife is like a leak that keeps dripping.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
King James Version (1611)
A foolish sonne is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continuall dropping.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows paid out of the hire of a harlot are not pure.
English Revised Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Berean Standard Bible
A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
Lexham English Bible
A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.
Literal Translation
A foolish son is a ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling a never ending dripping.
New English Translation
A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.
New King James Version
A foolish son is the ruin of his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.
New Living Translation
A foolish child is a calamity to a father; a quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping.
New Life Bible
A foolish son destroys his father. The arguing of a wife is like water falling drop by drop all the time.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Engulfing ruin to his father, is a son that is a dullard, - and, a continuous dripping, are the contentions of a wife.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.
George Lamsa Translation
A foolish son is a disgrace to his father; and the contentions of a wife are like drippings.
Good News Translation
Stupid children can bring their parents to ruin. A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip.
New American Standard Bible
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the quarrels of a wife are a constant dripping.
King James Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
New Revised Standard
A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Darby Translation
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sorewe of the fadir is a fonned sone; and roofes droppynge contynueli is a womman ful of chiding.
Young's Literal Translation
A calamity to his father [is] a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
World English Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
Revised Standard Version
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Update Bible Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Webster's Bible Translation
A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
Bible in Basic English
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.
THE MESSAGE
A parent is worn to a frazzle by a stupid child; a nagging spouse is a leaky faucet.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.
Legacy Standard Bible
A foolish son is destruction to his father,And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.

Contextual Overview

13 A foolish child brings disaster to a father, and a quarreling wife is like dripping water.

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

Genesis 13:13
Now the people of Sodom were very evil and were always sinning against the Lord .
Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said, "I have heard many complaints against the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. They are very evil.
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting near the city gate. When he saw them, he got up and went to them and bowed facedown on the ground.
Genesis 19:5
They called to Lot, "Where are the two men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sexual relations with them."
Genesis 19:6
Lot went outside to them, closing the door behind him.
Genesis 19:8
Look! I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. I will give them to you, and you may do anything you want with them. But please don't do anything to these men. They have come to my house, and I must protect them."
Genesis 19:9
The men around the house answered, "Move out of the way!" Then they said to each other, "This man Lot came to our city as a stranger, and now he wants to tell us what to do!" They said to Lot, "We will do worse things to you than to them." They started pushing him back and were ready to break down the door.
Genesis 19:12
The two men said to Lot, "Do you have any other relatives in this city? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or any other relatives? If you do, tell them to leave now,
Genesis 19:15
At dawn the next morning, the angels begged Lot to hurry. They said, "Go! Take your wife and your two daughters with you so you will not be destroyed when the city is punished."
Genesis 19:16
But Lot delayed. So the two men took the hands of Lot, his wife, and his two daughters and led them safely out of the city. So the Lord was merciful to Lot and his family.

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!


 
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