Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dolor patris filius stultus, et tecta jugiter perstillantia litigiosa mulier.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Proverbs 19:10
- αἰσχύνη πατρὶ υἱὸς ἄφρων· οὐχ ἁγναὶ εὐχαὶ ἀπὸ μισθώματος ἑταίρας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַוֺּ֣ת לְ֭אָבִיו בֵּ֣ן כְּסִ֑יל וְדֶ֥לֶף טֹ֝רֵ֗ד מִדְיְנֵ֥י אִשָּֽׁה
Haydock's commentary
Through. It cannot be endured long. (Calmet)
Dos est uxoria lites. (Ovid, Art. 1.)
"Quarrels are a wife's dowry."
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.