Proverbs 21:9 “Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a qu…”

Proverbs 21:9

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

World English Bible

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

American Standard Version

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Geneva Bible 1599

It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Darby Translation

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.

Young's Literal Translation

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than [with] a woman of contentions and a house of company.

Bible in Basic English

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

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Cross references

“better”

Proverbs 21:19 Proverbs 19:13 Proverbs 25:24 Proverbs 12:4 Proverbs 27:15 Proverbs 27:16

Proverbs 21:19 · BSB

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

Proverbs 19:13 · BSB

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

Proverbs 25:24 · BSB

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 12:4 · BSB

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

Proverbs 27:15 · BSB

A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—

Proverbs 27:16 · BSB

restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.

“brawling woman in a wide house”

Proverbs 17:1 Proverbs 15:17

Proverbs 17:1 · BSB

Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 15:17 · BSB

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

10The soul of the wicked man craves evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

Read Proverbs 21