¹⁸ Hot-tempered people stir up strife,
    but patient people quiet quarrels.

¹⁴ Starting a fight is like letting water through [a dike] —
    better stop the quarrel before it gets worse.

¹³ A son who is a fool is his father’s ruin,
    and a nagging wife is like a leak that keeps dripping.

¹⁹ It is better to live in the desert
    than with a nagging, irritable wife.

¹⁰ Throw the scoffer out, and quarreling goes too;
    strife and insults cease.

²⁹ Who has misery? Who has regret?
    Who fights and complains all the time?
Who gets bruised for no good reason?
    Who has bloodshot eyes?

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