KJV King James Version
[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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Proverbs 21:9
[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
WEB World English Bible
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
ASV American Standard Version
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than with a woman of contentions and a house of company.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 21
6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
8 The way of man [is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.
9 [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
12 The righteous [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.
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Proverbs 21:19[It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.Proverbs 19:13A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.Proverbs 25:24[It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.Proverbs 27:15-16A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.Proverbs 17:1Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.Proverbs 15:17Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
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