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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!
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A quiet man living with a nagging wife is like an old man climbing up a sandy hill.
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Never lose your head over a woman's beauty, and don't try to win a woman because she is wealthy.
22
When a man is supported by his wife, there is sure to be anger, arrogance, and humiliation.
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A bad wife will make her husband gloomy and depressed, and break his heart. Show me a timid man who can never make up his mind, and I will show you a wife who doesn't make her husband happy.
Footnotes 1
[a].
[Hebrew] because she is wealthy; [Greek does not have these words.]
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.