13 (A)A foolish son is the calamity of his father, (B)and the contentions of a wife are like a continual [a]dropping.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:13 As rain that droppeth and rotteth the house.

(A)It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, than with a contentious woman in a [a]wide house.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:9 Or, in a great family.

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

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24 (A)It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

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15 A (A)continual dropping in the day of rain, and a contentious woman are alike.

16 He that hideth her, hideth the wind, and she is as the oil in his right hand that uttereth itself.

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