Proverbs 19:13
Modern Translations
New International Version
A foolish child is a father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.

New Living Translation
A foolish child is a calamity to a father; a quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping.

English Standard Version
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Berean Study Bible
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

New American Standard Bible
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the quarrels of a wife are a constant dripping.

NASB 1995
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.

NASB 1977
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.

Amplified Bible
A foolish (ungodly) son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a [quarrelsome] wife are like a constant dripping [of water].

Christian Standard Bible
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a wife's nagging is an endless dripping.

Contemporary English Version
Foolish children bring disgrace to their fathers. A nagging wife goes on and on like the drip, drip, drip of the rain.

Good News Translation
Stupid children can bring their parents to ruin. A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A foolish son ruins his father, and a quarreling woman is like constantly dripping water.

International Standard Version
A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.

NET Bible
A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

New King James Version
A foolish son is the ruin of his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

King James 2000 Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

New Heart English Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.

World English Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.

American King James Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

American Standard Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

A Faithful Version
A foolish son is calamity to his father, and a contentious wife is a neverending dripping.

Darby Bible Translation
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
A foolish sonne is the calamitie of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continuall dropping.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
An vndiscrete sonne is the heauinesse of his father, and a brawlyng wyfe is like the toppe of an house wherthrough it is euer dropping.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
An vndiscrete sonne is ye heuynes of his father, & a braulynge wife is like the topp of an house, where thorow it is euer droppynge.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
A foolish son [is] a calamity to his father, "" And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.

Young's Literal Translation
A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Smith's Literal Translation
A foolish son a calamity to his father: and the strifes of a woman a dropping thrust out.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

Catholic Public Domain Version
A foolish son is the grief of his father. And an argumentative wife is like a roof that is continually leaking.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
A foolish son is a disgrace to a father, and the anxiety of a wife is like a continual dripping.

Lamsa Bible
A foolish son is a disgrace to his father; and the contentions of a wife are like drippings.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows paid out of the hire of a harlot are not pure.
















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