Proverbs 27:15

New Living Translation

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

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.

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

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 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

¹⁵ A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day. ¹⁶ Stopping her complaints is like trying to stop the wind or trying to hold something with greased hands.

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 his father said to the servants, ‘Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet.

Luke 20:46
"Beware of these teachers of religious law! For they like to parade around in flowing robes and love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces. And how they love the seats of honor in the synagogues and the head table 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.