Other translations
American Standard Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A foolish son is a disgrace to a father, and the anxiety of a wife is like a continual dripping.
Darby Bible Translation
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
God's Word
A foolish son ruins his father, and a quarreling woman is like constantly dripping water.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a wife's nagging is an endless dripping.
International Standard Version
A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.
NET Bible
A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.
New American Standard Bible
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.
New International Version
A foolish child is a father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.
New Living Translation
A foolish child is a calamity to a father; a quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping.
Webster's Bible Translation
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
The World English Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
EasyEnglish Bible
A foolish child will destroy his father. A woman who quarrels with her husband is like rain that never stops.
Young‘s Literal Translation
A calamity to his father [is] a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
New Life Version
A foolish son destroys his father. The arguing of a wife is like water falling drop by drop all the time.
The Voice Bible
Foolish children bring misery to their fathers, and a wife’s bickering is a constant dripping as from a leaky roof.
Living Bible
A rebellious son is a calamity to his father, and a nagging wife annoys like constant dripping.
New Catholic Bible
A foolish son is a calamity to his father, and a nagging wife is like an endless dripping of water.
Legacy Standard Bible
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.
Jubilee Bible 2000
A foolish son is a pain unto his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.
Christian Standard Bible
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.
Amplified Bible © 1954
A self-confident and foolish son is the [multiplied] calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continual dripping [of water through a chink in the roof].
New Century Version
A foolish child brings disaster to a father, and a quarreling wife is like dripping water.
The Message
A parent is worn to a frazzle by an irresponsible child; a nagging spouse is a leaky faucet.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
A foolish son is a disaster to his father, and a nagging wife is like constantly dripping water.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Good News Translation®
Stupid children can bring their parents to ruin. A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip.
Wycliffe Bible
The sorrow of the father is a fond son; and roofs dropping continually is a woman full of chiding. (A father’s sorrow is a foolish son; and a woman full of arguments, or of bickering, is like a roof continually dripping water.)
Contemporary English Version
Foolish children bring disgrace to their fathers. A nagging wife goes on and on like the drip, drip, drip of the rain.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarrelling is a continual dripping of rain.
Common English Bible © 2011
A foolish son is a disaster to his father; a contentious wife is like constant dripping.
Amplified Bible © 2015
A foolish (ungodly) son is destruction to his father, And the contentions of a [quarrelsome] wife are like a constant dripping [of water].
English Standard Version Anglicised
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarrelling is a continual dripping of rain.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
The foolish son is ruin to his father, and a quarrelsome wife is water constantly dripping.
New American Standard Bible
A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the quarrels of a wife are a constant dripping.
The Expanded Bible
A foolish ·child [son] ·brings [is a] disaster to a father, and a ·quarreling [contentious] wife is like ·dripping water [constant dripping].
Tree of Life Version
A foolish son is trouble for his father, and a quarrelsome wife is constant dripping.
Revised Standard Version
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
New International Reader's Version
A foolish child is a father’s ruin. A nagging wife is like dripping that never stops.
BRG Bible
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Complete Jewish Bible
A son who is a fool is his father’s ruin, and a nagging wife is like a leak that keeps dripping.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarrelling is a continual dripping of rain.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
A ben kesil is the calamity of aviv (his father), and the contentions of an isha are a constant dripping [i.e., an irritant].
Names of God Bible
A foolish son ruins his father, and a quarreling woman is like constantly dripping water.
Modern English Version
A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping of water.
Easy-to-Read Version
A foolish son brings a flood of troubles to his father, and a complaining wife is like the constant dripping of water.
International Children’s Bible
A foolish son will ruin his father. And a quarreling wife is as bothersome as dripping water.
Lexham English Bible
A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.
New International Version - UK
A foolish child is a father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.