This is nonsense, too; though, certainly, women are the faultiest of human beings—except men.
Be that as it may, few women have ever been more severely, or, perhaps, more justly, cauterized, than poor Job’s poor wife, in Coleridge’s celebrated Epigram:
Sly Beelzebub took all occasions
To try Job’s constancy and patience.
He took his honor, took his health,
He took his children, took his wealth,
His servants, horses, oxen, cows—
But cunning Satan did not take his spouse.
But Heaven, that brings out good from evil,
And loves to disappoint the Devil,