Do Not Boast about Tomorrow
Proverbs 27:15
In 11 translations
- BSB
- A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
- KJV
- A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
- WEB
- A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
- ASV
- A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:
- LSV
- A continual dropping in a day of rain, || And a woman of contentions are alike,
- YLT
- A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,
- DBY
- A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:
- DRC
- Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.
- GNV
- A continual dropping in the day of raine, and a contentious woman are alike.
- JPS
- A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
- LXXE
- On a stormy day drops of rain drive a man out of his house; so also does a railing woman drive a man out of his own house.
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Where the editions differ
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- Written (Ketiv): מְדוֹנִים (“contentions”). Read aloud (Qere): מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים (“contentions”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads מִ֝דְוָנִ֗ים; read aloud (Qere) reads מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים (“contentions”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- דֶּ֣לֶף ט֭וֹרֵד בְּי֣וֹם סַגְרִ֑יר וְאֵ֥שֶׁת מדונים נִשְׁתָּוָֽה׃Read aloud as (qere): מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים
- LXX-Br
- Σταγόνες ἐκβάλλουσιν ἄνθρωπον ἐν ἡμέρᾳ χειμερινῇ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ, ὡσαύτως καὶ γυνὴ λοίδορος ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου οἴκου.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
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 19:13A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
- Proverbs 21:19Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
- Proverbs 25:24Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- Job 14:19as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).