Proverbs 27:15

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife ¹  are alike. ² 

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

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

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

A nagging spouse is like the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet;

Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

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

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

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife ¹  are alike. ² 

¹ tn Heb “a wife of contentions” (an attributive genitive). Cf. NAB, NIV “a quarrelsome wife”; NLT “a nagging wife.”

² tn The form נִשְׁתָּוָה (nishtavah) is classified by BDB as a Nitpael perfect from the root שָׁוָה (shavah, “to be like; to resemble”; BDB 1001 s.v. I שָׁוָה). The form also has metathesis before the sibilant. The LXX interprets it as “Drops drive a man out of his house on a wintry day; so a railing woman also drives him out of his own house.”