Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Bible References

Foolish

Proverbs 10:1
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son will gladden the father: and the foolish man despised his mother.
Proverbs 17:21
The foolish one was born for sorrow to himself, and the father of the foolish one shall not rejoice.,
Ecclesiastes 2:18
And I hated all my labor I laboring under the sun: leaving it to the man who shall come after me.

The contentions

Proverbs 21:9
Good to dwell upon the corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.
Proverbs 25:24
Good to dwell upon a corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.
Proverbs 27:15
A dropping thrust forth in the day of rain and a woman of strifes were alike.
Job 14:19
The waters rubbed the stones: thou wilt overflow the flowings of the dust of the earth; and thou didst destroy the hope of man.

General references

Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.
Proverbs 25:24
Good to dwell upon a corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.
Matthew 19:10
His disciples say to him, If the cause of a man is so with the woman, it is not profitable to marry.