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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 is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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 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
But the people of this area were extremely wicked and constantly sinned against the Lord .
So the Lord told Abraham, "I have heard a great outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, because their sin is so flagrant.
That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there, and when he saw them, he stood up to meet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed with his face to the ground.
They shouted to Lot, "Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!"
So Lot stepped outside to talk to them, shutting the door behind him.
Look, I have two virgin daughters. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them as you wish. But please, leave these men alone, for they are my guests and are under my protection."
"Stand back!" they shouted. "This fellow came to town as an outsider, and now he's acting like our judge! We'll treat you far worse than those other men!" And they lunged toward Lot to break down the door.
Meanwhile, the angels questioned Lot. "Do you have any other relatives here in the city?" they asked. "Get them out of this place—your sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else.
At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. "Hurry," they said to Lot. "Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!"
When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the Lord was merciful.
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 ×××ת "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!
