Proverbs 27:15
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
BSB
ASV
A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:
KJV
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Just as no house ever falls to the ground by a sudden collapse, but only when there is some flaw of long standing in the foundation, or when by long continued neglect of its inmates, what was at first only a little drip finds its way through, and so the protecting walls are by degrees ruined, and in consequence of long standing neglect the gap becomes larger, and breaks away, and in time the drenching storm and rain pours in like a river: for "by slothfulness a building is cast down, and through the weakness of hands the house shall drop through."
Continual dropping - Here, as in the marginal reference, the flat, earthen roof of Eastern houses, always liable to cracks and leakage, supplies the groundwork of the similitude.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 21:19Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
leads to
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
Through
Proverbs 21:9Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
leads to
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.