Proverbs 27:15

English Standard Version 2016

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

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A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.

to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one’s right hand.