Proverbs 27:15 - Exposition

The single line of the second clause of Proverbs 19:13 is here formed into a distich. A continual dropping in a very rainy day. "A day of violent rain," סַגְרִיר ( sagrir ), which word occurs nowhere else in the Old Testament. And a contentious woman are alike. The word rendered "are alike" ( נִשְׁתָּוָה ) is usually taken to be the third perf. nithp. from שׁיה ; but the best established reading, according to Hitzig, Delitzsch, and Nowack, is נִשְׁתָּוָה , which is regarded as a niph. with a transposition of consonants for נְשְׁוָתָה . Septuagint, "Drops of rain drive a man out of his house on a stormy day." The ill-constructed roofs of Eastern houses were very subject to leakage, being flat and formed of porous material.