Proverbs 27:15
A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 19:13 : 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
- Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- 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 to share a house with a contentious woman.
- Job 14:19 : 19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
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- Prov 19:13-142 verses81%
13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
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16 restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.
- Prov 25:23-242 verses77%
23 The north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- Prov 21:19-202 verses76%
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 swallows it up.
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9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
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14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
- Prov 7:11-122 verses73%
11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
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14 The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
- Prov 9:13-142 verses72%
13 The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.
14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
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23 for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.
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21 As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
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1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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22 Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
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7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
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26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
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3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
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26 Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
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28 A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
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18 Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
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17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
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9 If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
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4 The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
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27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
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3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
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29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
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11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
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16 A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.
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18 A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
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22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
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26 She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.
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26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
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20 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'
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17 He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
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14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
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5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"
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3 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
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1 Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
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30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
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4 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
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16 Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'