This Reminds Me of A Proverb…

On the ain’t it pathet­ic front: A Yemeni man divorced his first wife because she was loud and argu­men­ta­tive and picked a deaf and mute woman as his new bride, a local news­pa­per said on Mon­day. Read the whole sad sto­ry.

Read­ing that trig­gered thoughts of Proverbs 27.15–16: A nag­ging wife is as annoy­ing as the con­stant drip­ping on a rainy day. Try­ing to stop her com­plaints is like try­ing to stop the wind or hold some­thing with greased hands. (New Liv­ing Trans­la­tion, link)

For the inter­pre­ta­tion­al­ly chal­lenged, let me make it clear the the Bible is in no way endors­ing the man’s actions. This is a descrip­tive pas­sage of Scrip­ture (mak­ing an obser­va­tion about life as it is) and not a pre­scrip­tive pas­sage (giv­ing advice and com­mands to cre­ate life as it should be).