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 a sorrow to his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 17:21
He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,
The contentions
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 25:24
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 27:15
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
Job 14:19
the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you 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 live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Matthew 19:10
The disciples said to him, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry."