Proverbs 25:24-26

Expanded Bible

²⁴ It is better to live in a corner on the roof [21:9]
than inside the house with a ·quarreling [contentious] wife.

²⁵ Good news from a faraway place
is like a cool drink when you are tired.

²⁶ A good person who ·gives in to [staggers before] evil
is like a ·muddy [foul] spring or a ·dirty [ruined] well.