⁹ It is better to live in a corner of the housetop
    than in a house shared with a contentious wife.^(A)

¹⁹ It is better to live in a desert land
    than with a contentious and fretful wife.

¹³ A stupid child is ruin to a father,
    and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.^(A)

¹⁵ A continual dripping on a rainy day
    and a contentious wife are alike;^(A)
16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind
    or to grasp oil in the right hand.^[a]

²⁴ It is better to live in a corner of the housetop
    than in a house shared with a contentious wife.^(A)

⁴ A good wife is the crown of her husband,
    but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.^(A)

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is
    than a fatted ox and hatred with it.^(A)