Proverbs 27:15

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

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The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: And thou destroyest the hope of man.

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

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.

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

He that would restrain her restraineth the wind, And his right hand encountereth oil.