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23 The wind of the north produces rain,
    and a backbiting tongue, angry faces.
24 Better to live upon the corner of a roof
    than with a woman[a] of contention and in a shared house.
25 Like cold water[b] upon a weary soul,[c]
    so too is good news from a distant place.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:24 Or “wife”
  2. Proverbs 25:25 Hebrew “waters”
  3. Proverbs 25:25 Or “life,” or “inner self”