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25:1  I take pleasure in three things, and they are beautiful in the sight of God and of mortals: agreement among brothers and sisters, friendship among neighbors, and a wife and a husband who live in harmony.
25:2  I hate three kinds of people, and I loathe their manner of life: a pauper who boasts, a rich person who lies, and an old adulterer who lacks sense.
25:3  If you gathered nothing in your youth, how can you find anything in your old age?
25:4  How attractive is sound judgment in gray-haired women and for aged men to possess good counsel!
25:5  How attractive is wisdom in the aged and understanding and counsel in the venerable!
25:6  Rich experience is the crown of the aged, and their boast is the fear of the Lord.
25:7  I can think of nine whom I would call happy, and a tenth my tongue proclaims: a man who can rejoice in his children, who lives to see the downfall of his foes.
25:8  Happy the man who lives with a sensible wife and who does not plow with ox and ass together, who does not slip with the tongue and who has not become enslaved to an inferior.
25:9  Happy is the one who finds good sense and the one who speaks to attentive listeners.
25:10  How great is the one who finds wisdom! But none is superior to the one who fears the Lord.
25:11  Fear of the Lord surpasses everything; to whom can we compare the one who has it?
25:13  Any wound, but not a wound of the heart! Any wickedness, but not the wickedness of a woman!
25:14  Any suffering, but not suffering from those who hate! And any vengeance, but not the vengeance of enemies!
25:15  There is no venom worse than a snake’s venom and no anger worse than a woman’s wrath.
25:16  I would rather live with a lion and a dragon than live with an evil woman.
25:17  A woman’s wickedness changes her appearance and darkens her face like that of a bear.
25:18  Her husband sits among the neighbors, and he cannot help sighing bitterly.
25:19  Any iniquity is small compared to a woman’s iniquity; may a sinner’s lot befall her!
25:20  A sandy ascent for the feet of the aged— such is a garrulous wife to a quiet husband.
25:21  Do not be ensnared by a woman’s beauty, and do not desire a woman for her possessions.
25:22  There is wrath and impudence and great disgrace when a wife supports her husband.
25:23  Dejected mind, gloomy face, and wounded heart come from an evil wife. Drooping hands and weak knees come from the wife who does not make her husband happy.
25:24  From a woman sin had its beginning, and because of her we all die.
25:25  Allow no outlet to water and no boldness of speech to an evil wife.
25:26  If she does not go as you direct, separate her from yourself.