Proverbs 21:19

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.”

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

“ ‘ “How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun: the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

for an unloved woman when she is married, and a servant who is heir to her mistress.

Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.