25:1 There are three things in which I take special delight—things that are beautiful to the Lord and people alike: brothers who get along with each other, neighbors who are friends, and a married couple who are happy together.
25:2 There are three kinds of people I cannot stand, whose behavior I find highly offensive: poor people who are arrogant, rich people who lie, and foolish old men who commit adultery.
25:3 Unless you learn what you can while you are young, you will never be wise when you reach old age.
25:4 Sound judgment, good advice, and gray hair go together beautifully.
25:5 Wisdom, understanding, and sound counsel are appropriate to the aged and the respected.
25:6 Elderly people wear the crown of long experience, and they can boast of nothing finer than their fear of the Lord.
25:7 I will tell you about ten kinds of people that I feel fortunate to know, especially fortunate in the case of the tenth: someone who takes pride in his children, someone who lives to see his enemies fall,
25:8 a man fortunate enough to have an understanding wife, a married couple who are well-matched, a person who never speaks sinfully, a person who doesn't have to work for someone less competent than himself,
25:9 someone fortunate enough to have a real friend, a person that people are happy to listen to,
25:10 and the really great one: someone who is wise. But the greatest one of all is the person who fears the Lord.
25:11 Such a person has no equal, because the fear of the Lord is the most important thing in the world.
25:13 No wound is as serious as wounded love. No troubles are as serious as the troubles that women cause.
25:14 No sufferings are worse than the sufferings caused by people who hate you. No revenge is worse than revenge taken by an enemy.
25:15 No poison is deadlier than the poison of a snake, and no anger is deadlier than the anger of a woman.
25:16 I would rather live in the same house with a lion or a dragon than with a bad wife.
25:17 When a wife is in a bad mood, her expression changes until she looks like an angry bear.
25:18 Her husband has to go and eat with the neighbors, where he can't hold back his bitter sighs.
25:19 Compared with the troubles caused by a woman, any other trouble looks small. May such women suffer the fate of sinners!
25:20 A quiet man living with a nagging wife is like an old man climbing up a sandy hill.
25:21 Never lose your head over a woman's beauty, and don't try to win a woman because she is wealthy.
25:22 When a man is supported by his wife, there is sure to be anger, arrogance, and humiliation.
25:23 A bad wife will make her husband gloomy and depressed, and break his heart. Show me a timid man who can never make up his mind, and I will show you a wife who doesn't make her husband happy.
25:24 Sin began with a woman, and we must all die because of her.
25:25 Don't let a bad wife have her way, any more than you would allow water to leak from your cistern.
25:26 If she won't do as you tell her, divorce her.
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