Proverbs 30:23

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

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

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.

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.

The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

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

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.

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

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

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

Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?

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

A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

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.

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?