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A ring of gold in a swine's snout, [is] a fair woman who is without discretion.
A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city, and [such] contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike. He who would restrain her restrains the wind, and his right hand encounters oil.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman plucks it down with her own hands.
Riddle » By agur
The leach has two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, [yea], four that do not say, Enough: Sheol, and the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that does not say, Enough.
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maiden. So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no iniquity. read more.
For three things the earth trembles, and for four, [which] it cannot bear: For a servant when he is king, and a fool when he is filled with food, for a hateful woman when she is married, and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress. There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer, the conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks, the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands, the lizard takes hold with her hands, yet she is in kings' palaces. There are three things which are stately in their march, yea, four which are stately in going: The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, and turns not away from any, the greyhound, also the he-goat, and the king against whom there is no rising up.
For three things the earth trembles, and for four, [which] it cannot bear: For a servant when he is king, and a fool when he is filled with food, for a hateful woman when she is married, and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress. There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer, the conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks, the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands, the lizard takes hold with her hands, yet she is in kings' palaces. There are three things which are stately in their march, yea, four which are stately in going: The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, and turns not away from any, the greyhound, also the he-goat, and the king against whom there is no rising up.
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Do not bear to be exalted
For three things the earth trembles, and for four, [which] it cannot bear: For a servant when he is king, and a fool when he is filled with food,