Proverbs 19:13

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

A friend loveth at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: And the father of a fool hath no joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

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

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 the comer of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

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