Proverbs 30:23
“For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.”
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.”
“And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.”
“It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.”
“A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.”
“He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.”