Proverbs 19:13

A Conservative Version

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

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A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike.

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

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

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

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

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

He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.

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

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