469. Leaky Roofs

From: Manners and Customs of the Bible By: James M. Freeman

• 1 min. read • grade level: 13

Proverbs 27:15¹⁵A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. (Proverbs 27:15). A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

Reference is undoubtedly made here to the frequent leaks to which the flat roofs of Eastern houses are subject. Having merely a covering of earth, rolled smooth and hard (see note on Psa. 129:6⁶Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: (Psalm 129:6), #452), a heavy rain will soon succeed in finding its way through, when the drops will fall into the room below, thus making it uncomfortable, if not actually uninhabitable. Travelers are frequently disturbed in this manner during violent storms, sometimes being obliged to change their quarters in the middle of the night.

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