Proverbs 27:16
Good News Translation
How can you keep her quiet? Have you ever tried to stop the wind or ever tried to hold a handful of oil?

New Revised Standard Version
to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in the right hand.

Contemporary English Version
It's easier to catch the wind or hold olive oil in your hand than to stop a nagging wife.

New American Bible
Whoever would hide her hides a stormwind and cannot tell north from south.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call the oil of his right hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call the oil of his right hand.

the ointment

John 12:3 Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Context
Do not Boast about Tomorrow
15Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike. 16He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call the oil of his right hand.17Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.…
Cross References
Proverbs 27:15
Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Proverbs 27:15
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