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Proverbs 19:13

A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.

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

New Living Translation
A foolish child is a calamity to a father; a quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping.
Update Bible Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
New Century Version
A foolish child brings disaster to a father, and a quarreling wife is like dripping water.
Webster's Bible Translation
A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: 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.
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].
English Standard Version
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sorewe of the fadir is a fonned sone; and roofes droppynge contynueli is a womman ful of chiding.
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.
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.
American Standard Version
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.
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.
Darby Translation
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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.
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.
New Life Bible
A foolish son destroys his father. The arguing of a wife is like water falling drop by drop all the time.
New Revised Standard
A stupid child is ruin to a 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.
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.
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.
Revised Standard Version
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
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.
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.
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.
King James Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
A calamity to his father [is] a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
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
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the quarrels of a wife are 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 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 is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.

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 extremely wicked rebels against the Lord .)
Genesis 18:20
So the Lord said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city's gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.
Genesis 19:5
They shouted to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!"
Genesis 19:6
Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.
Genesis 19:8
Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
Genesis 19:9
"Out of our way!" they cried, and "This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We'll do more harm to you than to them!" They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.
Genesis 19:12
Then the two visitors said to Lot, "Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place
Genesis 19:15
At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!"
Genesis 19:16
When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside 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!


 
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