Proverbs 25:24-26

New International Reader's Version

²⁴ It is better to live on a corner of a roof
    than to share a house with a nagging wife.

²⁵ Hearing good news from a land far away
    is like drinking cold water when you are tired.

²⁶ Sometimes godly people give in to those who are evil.
    Then they become like a muddy spring of water or a polluted well.