Proverbs 27:15 (WEB)
A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“She begins to be not a wife, but mistress of the house; and if she offend her husband, they must part.“A continual dropping on a wintry day” turns a man out of doors, and so will a contentious woman drive a man from his own house.” — editor's note: Prov. xxvii. 15.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VI.17Conference VI
“And that the same thing happens spiritually to the soul the same Solomon thus tells us in other words, when he says: “water dripping drives a man out of the house on a stormy day.”” — editor's note: Prov. xxvii. 15 (LXX.).
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.17.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.17.