13 (A)A foolish son is the calamity of his father, (B)and the contentions of a wife are like a continual [a]dropping.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:13 As rain that droppeth and rotteth the house.

13 A foolish child is a father’s ruin,(A)
    and a quarrelsome wife is like
    the constant dripping of a leaky roof.(B)

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24 (A)It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

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24 Better to live on a corner of the roof
    than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.(A)

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