It is better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and an angry woman.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, Than with a brawling 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 be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike.
For an odious woman when she is married; And an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.