“restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 27 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.