Proverbs 27:15

“(Compare Pro 19:13). very . . . day--literally, "a day of showers."”

“Continual dropping - Here, as in the marginal reference, the flat, earthen roof of Eastern houses, always liable to cracks and leakage, supplies the groundwork of the similitude. return to 'Top of Page'”

“27:15 A quarrelsome wife: Cp. 19:13; 21:9, 19; 25:24.”

“A continual: Pro 19:13, Pro 21:9, Pro 21:19, Pro 25:24; Job 14:19 Proverbs 27:16”

“This proverb passes from the complimentarius to its opposite, a shrewish wife: A continual dropping in a rainy day And a contentious woman are alike. Thus we have already translated (vol. i. p. 9), where, when treating of the manifold forms of parabolic proverbs, we began with this least poetic, but at the same time remarked that Pro 27:15 and Pro 27:16 are connected, forming a tetrastich, which is certainly the case according to the text here lying before us. In Pro 27:15, Pro 19:13 is expanded into a distich, and made a complete verse. Regarding דּלף טורד, vid., the explanation there given. The noun סגריר, which the Syr. translates by magyaa', but the Targumist retains, because it is in…”