Ben Sira 25:25

25 Don't let a bad wife have her way, any more than you would allow water to leak from your cistern.

Ben Sira 25:25 In-Context

23 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.
24 Sin began with a woman, and we must all die because of her.
25 Don't let a bad wife have her way, any more than you would allow water to leak from your cistern.
26 If she won't do as you tell her, divorce her.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.