Parallel Verses
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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
A foolish son a calamity to his father: and the strifes of a woman a dropping thrust out
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.
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 disfavor is like the roaring of a Lion, but his friendship is like the dew upon the grass. 13 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. 14 House and riches may a man have by the heritage of his elders; but a discreet woman is the gift of the LORD.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner under the housetop; 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.
Proverbs 10:1
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.
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.
Proverbs 17:21
An unwise body bringeth himself in to sorrow; and the father of a fool can have no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a chiding and an angry woman.
2 Samuel 13:1-18
And it chanced that Absalom, David's son, had a fair sister named Tamar, whom afterward Amnon, another son of David, loved.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet body shameth his mother.
Proverbs 25:24
It is better to sit in a corner under the roof, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-19
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.