New Revised Standard Version
The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

Contemporary English Version
A woman's family is held together by her wisdom, but it can be destroyed by her foolishness.

New American Bible
Wisdom builds her house, but Folly tears hers down with her own hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

the foolish

Proverbs 9:13-15 Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city, . . .

Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

Proverbs 21:9,19 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. . . .

1 Kings 16:31 Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.

1 Kings 21:24,25 If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die in the field, the birds of the air shall eat him. . . .

2 Kings 11:1 Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed.