Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

harden not your hearts, as in the bitter provocation, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

while it is said, To-day, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the bitter provocation.

Does a fountain send forth from the same cavern sweet water and bitter?

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood: and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

And I went to the angel, and said to him: Give me the little book. And he said to me: Take it, and eat it up, and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be in your mouth as sweet as honey.

And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey; and when I had eaten it, my stomach was bitter.