World English Bible
"A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:"
— Proverbs 27:15, World English Bible
“A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.”
“A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike: ”
“A continual dripping on a rainy day– a contentious wife makes herself like that.”
“Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.”
“Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.”
“A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.”
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!
He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.
Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.