Proverbs 27:15
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 27:15A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
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Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.
for an unloved woman when she is married, and a servant who is heir to her mistress.
Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’
His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.