It is better to live on a corner of the housetop ¹  than in a house in company ²  with a quarrelsome wife. ³ 

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

Your enemies roar ¹  in the middle of your sanctuary; ²  they set up their battle flags. ³ 

Do not disregard ¹  what your enemies say, ²  or the unceasing shouts of those who defy you. ³ 

Wine ¹  is a mocker ²  and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise. ³ 

It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife. ¹ 

Look, your fasting is accompanied by ¹  arguments, brawls, and fistfights. ²  Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

For the overseer ¹  must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work, ²  not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain.

Where do the conflicts and where ¹  do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, ²  from your passions that battle inside you? ³ 

Your hands ¹  were not bound, and your feet were not put into irons. You fell the way one falls before criminals.” All the people ²  wept over him again.