Proverbs 27:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ A continual dripping on a day of violent showers and a contentious woman are alike; [Prov. 19:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ A roof leaking on a cold day, and an argumentative woman, are comparable.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

Proverbs 27:15 Cross References

Job 14:19

The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: And thou destroyest the hope of man.

Proverbs 19:13

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

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Proverbs 25:24

It is better to dwell in the comer of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Proverbs 27:16

He that would restrain her restraineth the wind, And his right hand encountereth oil.