Proverbs 19:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ 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 you destroy the hope of mortals.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise child makes a glad father, but the foolish despise their mothers.

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.

Proverbs 17:21

The one who fathers a fool gets trouble; the parent of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 17:25

Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

Proverbs 21:19

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

Proverbs 21:9

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

Proverbs 25:24

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

Proverbs 27:15

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