Proverbs 27:15

American Standard Version (1901)

A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:13 : 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
  • Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
  • Prov 21:19 : 19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
  • Prov 25:24 : 24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
  • Job 14:19 : 19 The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 81%

    13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

    14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

  • 16 He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.

  • 77%

    23 The north wind bringeth forth rain: So doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

    24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

  • 76%

    19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

    20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swalloweth it up.

  • 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

  • 14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.

  • Prov 7:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 (She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:

    12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • 14 The beginning of strife is [as] when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.

  • Prov 9:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 The foolish woman is clamorous; [She is] simple, and knoweth nothing.

    14 And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,

  • 23 For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

  • 21 [ As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.

  • 1 Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

  • 22 [ As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.

  • 7 As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

  • 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [

  • Prov 5:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

    4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

  • 26 [ As] a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, [So is] a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

  • 28 A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

  • 18 As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and death,

  • 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

  • 9 If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

  • 4 The words of a man's mouth are [as] deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is [as] a flowing brook.

  • 27 For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

  • 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.

  • 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

  • 11 Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter?

  • 16 A gracious woman obtaineth honor; And violent men obtain riches.

  • 18 A wrathful man stirreth up contention; But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

  • 22 An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

  • 26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue.

  • 26 For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

  • 20 So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

  • 17 He that is soon angry will deal foolishly; And a man of wicked devices is hated.

  • 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

  • 5 yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming.

  • 3 A needy man that oppresseth the poor Is [like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

  • 1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.

  • 30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

  • 4 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

  • 16 Sheol; And the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.