Proverbs 19:13 - King James 2000

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

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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.

Proverbs 19:13 Tagairtí Cros

Job 14:19

The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.

Proverbs 10:1

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

Proverbs 15:20

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

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 17:21

He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 17:25

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

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman.

Proverbs 21:9

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

Proverbs 25:24

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

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.