Proverbs 27:15 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:15

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 27:15-16: Here, as before, Solomon laments the case of him that has a peevish passionate wife, that is continually chiding, and making herself and all about her uneasy. 1. It is a grievance that there is no avoiding, for it is like a continual dropping in a very rainy day.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:15: Iron sharpeneth iron,.... A sword or knife made of iron is sharpened by it; so butchers sharpen their knives; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend; by conversation with him; thus learned men sharpen one another's minds, and excite each other to learned studies; Christians sharpen one another's graces, or stir up each other to the exercise of them, and the gifts which...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 27:15: (Compare Pro 19:13). very . . . day--literally, "a day of showers."
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 27:15: Pro 27:15 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...