| Proverbs 19:13 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | A foolish son ruins his father, and a quarreling woman is like constantly dripping water.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. |
| ASV: | A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. |
| BBE: | A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end. |
| DBY: | A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. |
| ERV: | A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. |
| JPS: | A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. |
| WBS: | 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. |
| YLT: | A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. |
| Proverbs 19:13 Cross References |
| XREF: | Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father And bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to live in a corner of a roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 21:19 It is better to live in a desert land Than with a contentious and vexing woman.
Proverbs 27:15 A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike; (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 19:13 A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual {e} dropping.
(e) As rain that drops and rots the house. |
| WES: | 19:13 Dropping - Are like rain continually dropping upon an house. |
| MHC: | 19:11. He attains the most true glory who endeavours most steadily to overcome evil with good. 12. Christ is a King, whose wrath against his enemies will be as the roaring of a lion, and his favour to his people as the refreshing dew. 13. It shows the vanity of the world, that we are liable to the greatest griefs where we promise ourselves the greatest comfort. |
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