Pro 25:24
{It is} better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
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{It is} better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. {a brawling...: Heb. a woman of contentions} {a wide...: Heb. an house of society}
{It is} better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. {in...: Heb. in the land of the desert}
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
A foolish son {is} the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife {are} a continual dropping.
{It is} better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. {a brawling...: Heb. a woman of contentions} {a wide...: Heb. an house of society}
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
A foolish son {is} the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife {are} a continual dropping.
(She {is} loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, {but} gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.