⁹ It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

¹³ A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

¹⁹ It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

²⁴ It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

⁴ A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.

¹⁷ Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

¹⁵ Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

¹⁶ He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

¹ Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.