Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation 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. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And there is no anger above the anger of a woman. It will be more agreeable to abide with a lion and a dragon, than to dwell with a wicked woman. Sirach 25:21And any revenge, but the revenge of enemies. Sirach 25:22 There is no head worse than the head of a serpent: Sirach 25:24 The wickedness of a woman changeth her face: and she darkeneth her countenance as a bear: and sheweth it like sackcloth. In the midst of her neighbours, Sirach 25:25 Her husband groaned, and hearing he sighed a little. Context Sirach 25…22There is no head worse than the head of a serpent: 23And there is no anger above the anger of a woman. It will be more agreeable to abide with a lion and a dragon, than to dwell with a wicked woman. 24The wickedness of a woman changeth her face: and she darkeneth her countenance as a bear: and sheweth it like sackcloth. In the midst of her neighbours,… Cross References Sirach 25:21 And any revenge, but the revenge of enemies. Sirach 25:22 There is no head worse than the head of a serpent: Sirach 25:24 The wickedness of a woman changeth her face: and she darkeneth her countenance as a bear: and sheweth it like sackcloth. In the midst of her neighbours, Sirach 25:25 Her husband groaned, and hearing he sighed a little. |