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
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet body shameth his mother.
Proverbs 17:21
An unwise body bringeth himself in to sorrow; and the father of a fool can have no joy.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
Yea, I was weary of all my labour, which I had taken under the Sun, because I should be fain to leave them unto another man, that cometh after me.
The contentions
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner under the housetop; than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 25:24
It is better to sit in a corner under the roof, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 27:15
A brawling woman and the roof of the house dropping in a rainy day, may well be compared together.
Job 14:19
the waters pierce through the very stones by little and little, the floods wash away the gravel and the earth. Even so destroyest thou the hope of man in like manner.
General references
Proverbs 17:25
An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.
Proverbs 25:24
It is better to sit in a corner under the roof, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Matthew 19:10
Then said his disciples to him, "If the matter be so between man and wife, then is it not good to marry."