13 (A)A foolish son is the ruin of his father,
(B)And the contentions of a wife are a continual [a]dripping.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:13 Irritation

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

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Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop,
Than in a house shared with (A)a contentious woman.

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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop,
    than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

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19 Better to dwell [a]in the wilderness,
Than with a contentious and angry woman.

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  1. Proverbs 21:19 Lit. in the land of the desert

19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness,
    than with a contentious and an angry woman.

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24 (A)It is better to dwell in a corner of a housetop,
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

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24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop,
than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

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15 A (A)continual dripping on a very rainy day
And a contentious woman are alike;
16 Whoever [a]restrains her restrains the wind,
And grasps oil with his right hand.

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  1. Proverbs 27:16 Lit. hides

15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day
and a contentious woman are alike.
16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind,
and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

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