Proverbs 27:15 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

English ASV

A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

English Amplified

A continual dripping on a day of violent showers and a contentious woman are alike; [Prov. 19:13.]

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

A continual dripping on a day of violent showers and a contentious woman are alike; [Prov. 19:13.]

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

An endless dripping on a rainy day and a nagging wife are alike;

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:

English EASY 2024

A wife who is always arguing with you is as bad as rain that never stops falling.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

A complaining wife is like water that never stops dripping on a rainy day.

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

English GNT (Good News Translation)

A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip on a rainy day.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Constantly dripping water on a rainy day is like a quarreling woman.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

An endless dripping on a rainy day and a nagging wife are alike.

English KJV 1611

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

English LSB

A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome woman.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

A nagging wife is like dripping that never stops on a rainy day.

English NIV

A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day;

English NKJ 1982

A continual dripping on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;

English NLT

A nagging wife is as annoying as the constant dripping on a rainy day.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

An endless drip, drip, drip, from a leaky faucet and the words of a cranky, nagging wife have the same effect.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

A constant dripping on a rainy day and a cranky woman are much alike!

English Tyndale 1537

A brawling woman and the roof of the house dropping in a rainy day, may well be compared together.

Proverbs 27:15 — Compare Translations