23 The north wind produces rain,
and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
24 Better to live on the corner of a roof
than to share a house with a nagging wife.(A)
25 Good news from a distant land
is like cold water to a parched throat.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:25 Or a weary person

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