Proverbs

¹⁹Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife. ²⁰The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down. ²¹Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor. ²²One who is wise can go up against the city of the mighty and pull down the stronghold in which they trust. ²³Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity. ²⁴The proud and arrogant person—“Mocker” is his name— behaves with insolent fury. ²⁵The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.