A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
WEB
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
YLT
A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
DBT
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.