Proverbs 21:9
“It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top; then with a brawling woman in a wide house.”
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Proverbs 21:9 Context
7The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to doe iudgement. 8The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure; his worke is right. 9It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top; then with a brawling woman in a wide house. 10The soule of the wicked desireth euill: his neighbour findeth no fauour in his eyes. 11When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiueth knowledge.
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[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
- King James Version
It is better to live in a corner of a roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
- American Standard Version (1901)
It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
- Basic English Bible
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.
- Darby Bible
It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
- Webster's Bible
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- World English Bible
Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than [with] a woman of contentions and a house of company.
- Youngs Literal Bible
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than in a house in common with a contentious woman.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible