13A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.


In Context

10 It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury- how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

11 A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense.

12 A king's rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

13 A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

14 Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord .

15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless man goes hungry.

Proverbs 19:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:13A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:13A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:13A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.