Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Holman Bible
and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.
A Conservative Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
American Standard Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Amplified
A foolish (ungodly) son is destruction to his father,
And the contentions of a [quarrelsome] wife are like a constant dripping [of water].
Bible in Basic English
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
Darby Translation
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Julia Smith Translation
A foolish son a calamity to his father: and the strifes of a woman a dropping thrust out
King James 2000
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.
Modern King James verseion
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a wife is a never-ending dripping.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An indiscreet son is the heaviness of his father; and a brawling wife is like the top of a house, wherethrough it is ever dropping.
NET Bible
A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.
New Heart English Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
The Emphasized Bible
Engulfing ruin to his father, is a son that is a dullard, - and, a continuous dripping, are the contentions of a wife.
Webster
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
World English Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
Youngs Literal Translation
A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Themes
wicked Children » With regard to parents » Are a calamity to them
Contention » Contentious people
Contentious woman » Stir up strife
Evil » Women evil women » Stir up strife
Family » Parental prayers » Strife in
Fools » Are » A grief to parents
Home » parental love » Parental feelings and emotions » Sorrow
Marriage » The contentions of a wife
Parents » Those that parent fools
Strife » Causes of » In the family
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 19:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Foolish Son Brings Ruin To Others
12 The king's anger is like the roaring of a lion, but his goodwill is like dew on the grass. 13 A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops. 14 A house and self-sufficiency are a father's inheritance, but from the LORD comes an insightful wife.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:9
It's better to live in a corner on the roof than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 27:15
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike.
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grieves his mother.
Job 14:19
Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!
Proverbs 17:21
The man who fathers a fool does so to his sorrow the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.
Proverbs 21:19
It's better to live in the wilderness than to live with a contentious and irritable woman.
2 Samuel 13:1-18
Sometime after this, David's son Amnon fell in love with David's other son Absalom's beautiful sister Tamar.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 25:24
It's better to live in a corner on the roof than in a house with a contentious woman.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-19
Then I despised everything I had worked for on earth, that is, the things that I will leave to the person who will succeed me.