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Ben Sira 25:17
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Ben Sira 25:17
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When a wife is in a bad mood, her expression changes until she looks like an angry bear.
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No poison is deadlier than the poison of a snake, and no anger is deadlier than the anger of a woman.
16
I would rather live in the same house with a lion or a dragon than with a bad wife.
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When a wife is in a bad mood, her expression changes until she looks like an angry bear.
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Her husband has to go and eat with the neighbors, where he can't hold back his bitter sighs.
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Compared with the troubles caused by a woman, any other trouble looks small. May such women suffer the fate of sinners!
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.