Proverbs 19:13

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

The sorrow of the father is a fond [or foolish] son; and roofs dropping continually is a woman full of chiding.

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Waters make stones hollow, and the earth is wasted little and little by washing away of water; and thou shalt lose men in like manner.

The parables of Solomon. A wise son maketh glad his father; but a fond [or foolish] son is the sorrow of his mother.

A wise son maketh glad his father; but a fond [or foolish] man despiseth his mother.

He that is a friend, loveth in all time; and a brother is proved in anguishes.

A fool is born in his shame; but neither the father shall be glad in a fool.

A fond [or foolish] son is the ire [or the wrath] of the father, and the sorrow of the mother that bare him.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman full of chiding, and wrathful.

It is better to sit in the corner of an house without roof, than with a woman full of chiding, and in a common house.

It is better to sit in the corner of an house without [a] roof, than with a woman full of chiding, and in a common house.

Roofs dropping in the day of cold, and a woman full of chiding, be likened together.