The Man of Integrity
Proverbs 19:13
In 11 translations
- BSB
- A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
- KJV
- A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- WEB
- A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
- ASV
- A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- LSV
- A foolish son [is] a calamity to his father, || And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
- YLT
- A calamity to his father [is] a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
- DBY
- A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- DRC
- A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.
- GNV
- A foolish sonne is the calamitie of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continuall dropping.
- JPS
- A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- LXXE
- A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows paid out of the hire of a harlot are not pure.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הַוֺּ֣ת לְ֭אָבִיו בֵּ֣ן כְּסִ֑יל וְדֶ֥לֶף טֹ֝רֵ֗ד מִדְיְנֵ֥י אִשָּֽׁה׃
- LXX-Br
- Αἰσχύνη πατρὶ υἱὸς ἄφρων, οὐχ ἁγναὶ εὐχαὶ ἀπὸ μισθώματος ἑταίρας.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 21:9Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- Proverbs 27:15A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
- Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
- Proverbs 25:24Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- Proverbs 15:20A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
- Proverbs 17:21A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
- 2 Samuel 13:1–18After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom. Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to…
- Job 14:19as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
- Proverbs 21:19Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
- Proverbs 17:25A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
- Ecclesiastes 2:18–19I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have…
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