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Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
Proverbs 19:13 · Berean Standard Bible
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Proverbs 19:13 in other translations
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
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In context
10 Luxury is unseemly for a fool— how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
11 A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is 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 fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
16 He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.
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