²³ A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

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.

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

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

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

²¹ If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.