Proverbs 19:13 - Revised Standard Version

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

A self-confident and foolish son is the [multiplied] calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continual dripping [of water through a chink in the roof].

American Standard Version (1901)

A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Common English Bible

A foolish son is a disaster to his father; a contentious wife is like constant dripping.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A foolish son is the grief of his father. And an argumentative wife is like a roof that is continually leaking.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

Proverbs 19:13 Cross References

Job 14:19

the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroyest the hope of man.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 17:21

A stupid son is a grief to a father; and the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

Proverbs 25:24

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

Proverbs 27:15

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