Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
The contentions
General references
Bible References
Foolish
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 17:21
He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.
The contentions
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 25:24
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 27:15
A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike.
Job 14:19
The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.
General references
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 25:24
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Matthew 19:10
His disciples say to him, If the case of the man with his wife is this way, it is not advantageous to marry.