New Revised Standard Version
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;

Contemporary English Version
The steady dripping of rain and the nagging of a wife are one and the same.

New American Bible
For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome wife;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

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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. . . .

Proverbs 25:24 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

Job 14:19 Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.