Proverbs 30:23

A Conservative Version

for a hateful woman when she is married, and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

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A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike.

He who brings up his servant gently from childhood shall have him become a son at the last.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

For a servant when he is king, and a fool when he is filled with food,

There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.