Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.
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Abba Besa
AD 379
And it was also said, “A wise woman builds a house, but the foolish will destroy it with her hands.” This means that the wise woman encourages her neighbor in the fear of God and the love which is in her heart toward her sister and her sisters. But, on the other hand, the foolish woman will destroy them by her words full of bitterness, hatred, wickedness and scorn, even as it is written, “A rod of scorn is in the mouth of the foolish,” and that means you. Fragment , Letter to Antinoe–.
