Proverbs 21:9
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Note a brawling…: Heb. a woman of contentions
Note a wide…: Heb. an house of society
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- better
- Proverbs 21:19; Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 19:13; Proverbs 25:24; Proverbs 27:15, 16
- brawling woman in a wide house
- Heb. woman of contentions ina house of society.
- Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 17:1