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.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.

And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than with a woman of contentions and a house of company.

Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

His disciples say to him, 'If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'