Thematic Bible
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Better to live in a land of wilderness than [with] a wife of quarrels and provocation.
A ring of gold in [the] snout of a pig [is] a woman [who is] beautiful but without discretion.
A brother who is offended [is worse] than a city of strength, and quarrels [are] like the bars of a fortification.
Better [is] a dinner of vegetables when love [is] there than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.
Better to dwell on the corner of a roof than [to] share a house with a woman of contention.
Better to live upon the corner of a roof than [with] a woman of contention and [in a] shared house.
Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike. [In] restraining her, he restrains wind, and his right hand will grasp oil.
A woman of strength [is] the crown of her master, but like rot in his bones is she who brings shame.
The {wisest of women} builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her hands.
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For the leech, [there are] two daughters; "Give, give!" [they cry]. As for three of these, they are not satisfied; as for four, they do not say enough. Sheol and barrenness of womb, the land is not satisfied [with] water, and fire does not say "enough!"
Three of these are [too] wonderful for me, and four, I do not understand them: the way of the eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman. This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says "I have not done wrong." read more.
Under three [things] the earth trembles, and under four, it is not able to bear up: under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied [with] food; under an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress. There [are] four small things on the earth, and they [are] {exceedingly wise}: The ants [are] a people [who are] not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer; the badgers [are] a people [who are] not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock; there is no king for the locust, yet it marches in rank; a lizard you [can] seize with hands, yet it is in palaces of kings. There [are] three [things] that are magnificent of stride, and four that are magnificent [when] moving: a mighty lion among the beasts, but he will not turn back from {any face}; a strutting rooster or he-goat, and a king [whose] army [is] with him.
Under three [things] the earth trembles, and under four, it is not able to bear up: under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied [with] food; under an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress. There [are] four small things on the earth, and they [are] {exceedingly wise}: The ants [are] a people [who are] not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer; the badgers [are] a people [who are] not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock; there is no king for the locust, yet it marches in rank; a lizard you [can] seize with hands, yet it is in palaces of kings. There [are] three [things] that are magnificent of stride, and four that are magnificent [when] moving: a mighty lion among the beasts, but he will not turn back from {any face}; a strutting rooster or he-goat, and a king [whose] army [is] with him.