Bible verse
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
Proverbs 19:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 19.
9 A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.
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.
17 Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
KJV
A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
ASV
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
ERV
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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