It is better to dwell in a desert land,\par\tab Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop,\par\tab Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father;\par\tab And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day\par\tab And a contentious woman are alike:
For an odious woman when she is married;\par\tab And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.\par