24 Better to live on the corner of a roof
than to share a house with a nagging wife.(A)

25 Good news from a distant land
is like cold water to a parched throat.[a](B)

26 A righteous person who yields to the wicked(C)
is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:25 Or a weary person

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