This chapter is overflowing with applicable lessons, but here's just one.
Verse 13: A foolish child is a calamity to a father; a quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping.
Why is it just to a father? Why isn't the mother mentioned? So a foolish child does cause any such pain for a mother?
And how great the simile of a wife to a "dripping"? This is such a relatable sound, feeling, annoyance so the proverb is so perfectly written. We can envision the slow, but constant dripping that is hard to fix. You think you've turned the faucet tighter, but the drips just keep coming. I guess I need to start working on this already so I do not become a "constant dripping".
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