Proverbs 19:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹³ A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father: And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ 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)

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Common English Bible

¹³ A foolish son is a disaster to his father; a contentious wife is like constant dripping.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ A foolish son is the grief of his father. And an argumentative wife is like a roof that is continually leaking.

Proverbs 19:13 Cross References

Job 14:19

as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil from the land, so you destroy a man’s hope.

Proverbs 10:1

Solomon’s proverbs: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 17:21

A man fathers a fool to his own sorrow; the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son is grief to his father and bitterness to the one who bore him.

Proverbs 21:19

Better to live in a wilderness than with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.

Proverbs 21:9

Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife.

Proverbs 25:24

Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife.

Proverbs 27:15

An endless dripping on a rainy day and a nagging wife are alike;