Proverbs 21:9

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

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

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

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.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

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.

“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.

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.

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

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

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

Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.

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.”

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

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.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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,