²⁴ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

¹⁵ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

¹⁶ Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.