Sprueche 27:15

15 Ein zänkisches Weib und stetiges Triefen, wenn's sehr regnet, werden wohl miteinander verglichen.

Sprueche 27:15 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dropping in a very rainy day
That is, through the roof of a house which is not well covered, or which lets in rain by one means or another; so that in a thorough rainy day it keeps continually dropping, to the great annoyance of those within, and which is very uncomfortable to them: it is observed ^F7 that rain is called by the name in the text, because a man is shut up under a roof falls; and continuing long he is shut up within doors and cannot come out; and a contentious woman are alike;
troublesome and uncomfortable; as in a rainy day, a man cannot go abroad with any pleasure, and if the rain is continually dropping upon him in his house he cannot sit there with any comfort; and so a contentious woman, that is always scolding and brawling, a man has no comfort at home; and if he goes abroad he is jeered and laughed at on her account by others; and perhaps she the more severely falls upon him when he returns for having been abroad; see ( Proverbs 19:13 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 David de Pomis, Lexic. fol. 107. 3.

Sprueche 27:15 In-Context

13 Nimm dem sein Kleid, der für einen andern Bürge wird, und pfände ihn um der Fremden willen.

14 Wenn einer seinen Nächsten des Morgens früh mit lauter Stimme segnet, das wird ihm für einen Fluch gerechnet.

15 Ein zänkisches Weib und stetiges Triefen, wenn's sehr regnet, werden wohl miteinander verglichen.

16 Wer sie aufhält, der hält den Wind und will das Öl mit der Hand fassen.

17 Ein Messer wetzt das andere und ein Mann den andern.