Better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and angry woman.
Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Oh, that I had in the wilderness A lodging place for travelers; 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 ruin of his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.
A continual dripping on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;
A hateful woman when she is married, And a maidservant who succeeds her mistress.