Pro 27:15
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
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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}
{It is} better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. {in...: Heb. in the land of the desert}
{It is} better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow {out} of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. {washest...: Heb. overflowest}
{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 virtuous woman {is} a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed {is} as rottenness in his bones.
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 the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
For an odious {woman} when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.