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Proverbs 19:13

Parents and childrenMarriageConflict and reconciliation

11 A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.

12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

14 Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

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BSB
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
KJV
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
WEB
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
ASV
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
DARBY
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
BLB
A foolish son [is] the ruin of his father, and the quarrels of a wife [are] a continual dripping.
ÅB
En uforstandig sønn er bare til ulykke for sin far, og en kvinnes tretter er et stadig takdrypp.
OTB
Et tåpelig barn er en fars undergang, og en kones krangler er som en konstant drypping.
B1930
En uforstandig sønn er bare til ulykke for sin far, og en kvinnes tretter er et stadig takdrypp.

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