Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
KJV
Dolor patris filius stultus, et tecta jugiter perstillantia litigiosa mulier.
Vulgate
ὃς φυλάσσει ἐντολὴν τηρεῖ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ψυχήν, ὁ δὲ καταφρονῶν τῶν ἑαυτοῦ ὁδῶν ἀπολεῖται.
LXX
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
ASV
הַוֺּ֣ת לְ֭/אָבִי/ו בֵּ֣ן כְּסִ֑יל וְ/דֶ֥לֶף טֹ֝רֵ֗ד מִדְיְנֵ֥י אִשָּֽׁה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
דֶ֥לֶף
dlp
noun · 2×
הַוּֽוֹת
hvvt
noun · 16×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
טֹ֝רֵ֗ד
trd
verb · 2×
כְּסִ֑יל
ksyl
noun · 69×
מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים
mdynym
noun · 9×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Sam 13:1 — And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
- Job 14:19 — The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
- Prov 10:1 — The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
- Prov 10:1 — The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
- Prov 12:4 — A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
- Prov 14:1 — Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
- Prov 15:20 — A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
- Prov 17:21 — He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
- Prov 17:21 — He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
- Prov 17:25 — A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
- Prov 17:25 — A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
- Prov 21:9 — It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
- Prov 21:9 — It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
- Prov 21:19 — It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
- Prov 25:24 — It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
- Prov 25:24 — It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
- Prov 27:15 — A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
- Prov 27:15 — A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
- Prov 30:23 — For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.