Proverbs 19:13

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

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.

He who begets a fool, [there is] trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice.

So I hated all my toil with which I have toiled under the sun, for I must leave it behind to someone who will be after me.

Better to dwell on the corner of a roof than [to] share a house with a woman of contention.

Better to live upon the corner of a roof than [with] a woman of contention and [in a] shared house.

Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike.

Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away [the] soil of [the] earth; so you destroy the hope of human beings.

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Better to live upon the corner of a roof than [with] a woman of contention and [in a] shared house.

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a man with his wife, it would be better not to marry!"