Proverbs 12:4

The Message

A hearty wife invigorates her husband, but a frigid woman is cancer in the bones.

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Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful face on an empty head.

The thinking of principled people makes for justice; the plots of degenerates corrupt.

Lady Wisdom builds a lovely home; Sir Fool comes along and tears it down brick by brick.

A sound mind makes for a robust body, but runaway emotions corrode the bones.

Find a good spouse, you find a good life— and even more: the favor of God!

Better to live in a tent in the wild than with a cross and petulant spouse.

Better to live alone in a tumbledown shack than share a mansion with a nagging spouse.