Proverbs 19:13
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Berean Study Bible
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

Young's Literal Translation
A calamity to his father [is] a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.

King James Bible
A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.

Hebrew
A foolish
כְּסִ֑יל (kə·sîl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3684: Stupid fellow, dullard, fool

son
בֵּ֣ן (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

is his father’s
לְ֭אָבִיו (lə·’ā·ḇîw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

ruin,
הַוֺּ֣ת (haw·wōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1942: Desire, chasm, destruction

and a quarrelsome
מִדְיְנֵ֥י (miḏ·yə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4079: Brawling, contention

wife
אִשָּֽׁה׃ (’iš·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

is like a constant
טֹ֝רֵ֗ד (ṭō·rêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2956: To pursue, chase, be continuous

dripping.
וְדֶ֥לֶף (wə·ḏe·lep̄)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1812: A dripping

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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