New Revised Standard Version
A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

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.

New American Bible
The foolish son is ruin to his father, and a quarrelsome wife is water constantly dripping.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

foolish

Proverbs 10:1 Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 15:20 A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 17:21,25 A fool is born to his own disgrace: and even his father shall not rejoice in a fool. . . .

2 Samuel 13:13-18 For I shall not be able to bear my shame, and thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel: but rather speak to the king, and he will not deny me to thee. . . .

Ecclesiastes 2:18,19 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, . . .

the contentions

Proverbs 21:9,19 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. . . .

Proverbs 25:24 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

Proverbs 27:15 Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

Job 14:19 Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.