24 It is (A)better to live on a corner of the roof,
Than [a]in a house shared with a contentious woman.
25 Like cold water to a weary soul,
So is (B)good news from a distant land.
26 Like a (C)trampled spring and a [b]polluted well,
So is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:24 Lit with a woman of contentions and a house of association
  2. Proverbs 25:26 Lit ruined

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