Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
A foolish son a calamity to his father: and the strifes of a woman a dropping thrust out
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Holman Bible
and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.
International Standard Version
A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.
A Conservative Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
American Standard Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Amplified
A foolish (ungodly) son is destruction to his father,
And the contentions of a [quarrelsome] wife are like a constant dripping [of water].
Bible in Basic English
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
Darby Translation
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
King James 2000
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.
Modern King James verseion
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a wife is a never-ending dripping.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An indiscreet son is the heaviness of his father; and a brawling wife is like the top of a house, wherethrough it is ever dropping.
NET Bible
A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.
New Heart English Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
The Emphasized Bible
Engulfing ruin to his father, is a son that is a dullard, - and, a continuous dripping, are the contentions of a wife.
Webster
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
World English Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
Youngs Literal Translation
A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Themes
wicked Children » With regard to parents » Are a calamity to them
Contention » Contentious people
Contentious woman » Stir up strife
Evil » Women evil women » Stir up strife
Family » Parental prayers » Strife in
Fools » Are » A grief to parents
Home » parental love » Parental feelings and emotions » Sorrow
Marriage » The contentions of a wife
Parents » Those that parent fools
Strife » Causes of » In the family
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 19:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Foolish Son Brings Ruin To Others
12 The king's wrath growling as the young lion, and his acceptance as dew upon the grass. 13 A foolish son a calamity to his father: and the strifes of a woman a dropping thrust out 14 A house and wealth the inheritance of fathers: and an understanding wife from Jehovah.
Cross References
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 27:15
A dropping thrust forth in the day of rain and a woman of strifes were alike.
Proverbs 10:1
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.
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.
Proverbs 17:21
The foolish one was born for sorrow to himself, and the father of the foolish one shall not rejoice.,
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.
Proverbs 21:19
Good to dwell in the land of the desert rather than with a woman of contentions and anger.
2 Samuel 13:1-18
And it will be after this, and to Absalom son of David a fair sister, and her name Tamar; and Amnon, son of David, loved her.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son will gladden the father: and the foolish man despised his mother.
Proverbs 25:24
Good to dwell upon a corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-19
And I hated all my labor I laboring under the sun: leaving it to the man who shall come after me.