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19 It is better to dwell in a wilderness
    than with a quarrelsome wife and trouble.

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24 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop
    than in a mansion with a quarrelsome wife.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:24 A humorous saying about domestic unhappiness: better to live alone outdoors than indoors with an angry spouse. Prv 21:9 is identical and 21:19 is similar in thought.

15 For a persistent leak on a rainy day
    the match is a quarrelsome wife;(A)

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23 Depressed mind, gloomy face,
    and a wounded heart—a wicked woman.
Drooping hands and quaking knees,
    any wife who does not make her husband happy.

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