15A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:


In Context

12 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

13 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.

15 A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

16 restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.

17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.

Proverbs 27:15 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

27:15A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day;

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:15Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:15A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:15A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:15A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.