25:1 My whole being takes pleasure in three things, and these are beautiful to the Lord and to human beings: harmony among brothers and sisters, friendship among neighbors, and a wife and husband who adapt to each other.
25:2 My whole being despises three types of persons, and I am angered by the way they live: an arrogant poor person, a rich liar, an old adulterer who never learns.
25:3 If you have gathered nothing in your youth, how then will you find anything in your old age?
25:4 How beautiful is sound judgment in gray-haired women and finding good advice in elderly men!
25:5 How beautiful is wisdom in the aged and thought and counsel in those who are respectable!
25:6 Experience is the crown of the aged and respecting the Lord is their claim to fame.
25:7 In my heart, I would consider nine conditions to be happy, and I’ll name a tenth with my tongue— people who are made glad by their children, and who live to see the downfall of their enemies.
25:8 Happy are those who live with sensible wives, who don’t slip with their tongue, and who haven’t been a servant to one inferior to themselves.
25:9 Happy is the one who has gained good sense and who is passing this along to listening ears.
25:10 How great is one who finds Wisdom, but no one does better than the one who fears the Lord.
25:11 Fear of the Lord surpasses everything; those who possess it are incomparable.
25:13 Any wound, but not a wound to the heart; and any wickedness, but not a woman’s wickedness!
25:14 Any attack, but not an attack by those who hate; and any vengeance, but not the vengeance of enemies.
25:15 No poison is worse than a snake’s poison, and no anger is worse than an enemy’s anger.
25:16 I would rather live with a lion or a serpent than live with a wicked woman.
25:17 A woman’s wickedness changes her appearance, and it darkens her face like that of a bear.
25:18 Her husband sits down among his neighbors and unintentionally groans bitterly.
25:19 Any evil is small when compared to a woman’s evil; may she experience a sinner’s fate.
25:20 A talkative wife for a quiet husband is like a sand dune beneath the feet of an elderly person.
25:21 Don’t fall for a woman’s beauty, and don’t long for a woman.
25:22 There will be anger, shamelessness, and utter disgrace when a wife provides for her husband.
25:23 A wicked wife causes a humiliated heart, a gloomy face, and a wounded heart. Drooping hands and weakened knees come from a woman who doesn’t make her husband happy.
25:24 Sin began with a woman, and because of her all of us die.
25:25 Don’t allow an outlet for water, and don’t give a wicked wife freedom to speak.
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