Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. New Living Translation It’s better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home. English Standard Version It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. Berean Study Bible Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife. New American Standard Bible It is better to live in a corner of the roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman. King James Bible It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. Christian Standard Bible Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife. Contemporary English Version It's better to stay outside on the roof of your house than to live inside with a nagging wife. Good News Translation Better to live on the roof than share the house with a nagging wife. Holman Christian Standard Bible Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife. International Standard Version It's better to live in a corner on the roof than in a house with a contentious woman. NET Bible It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife. New Heart English Bible It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman. Aramaic Bible in Plain English It is better to dwell on the corner of a roof than to dwell with a contentious woman in a house of divisions. GOD'S WORD® Translation Better to live on a corner of a roof than to share a home with a quarreling woman. JPS Tanakh 1917 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, Than in a house in common with a contentious woman. New American Standard 1977 It is better to live in a corner of the roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman. Jubilee Bible 2000 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. King James 2000 Bible It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a whole house. American King James Version It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. American Standard Version It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house. Brenton Septuagint Translation It is better to dwell on a corner of the roof, than with a railing woman in an open house. Douay-Rheims Bible It is better to sit m a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. Darby Bible Translation It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common. English Revised Version It is better to dwell in the comer of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house. Webster's Bible Translation It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman and 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. Young's Literal Translation Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company. Study Bible More Proverbs of Solomon…23As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks. 24Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife. 25Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.… Cross References Proverbs 21:9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife. Proverbs 25:25 Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land. Treasury of Scripture It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. Proverbs 21:9,19 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house… Proverbs 27:15,16 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike… Lexicon Betterט֗וֹב (ṭō·wḇ) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good to live שֶׁ֥בֶת (še·ḇeṯ) Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry on עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against a corner פִּנַּת־ (pin·naṯ-) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 6438: An angle, a pinnacle, a chieftain of the roof גָּ֑ג (gāḡ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1406: A roof, the top of an altar than to share חָֽבֶר׃ (ḥā·ḇer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2267: Company, association, spell a house וּבֵ֥ית (ū·ḇêṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house with a quarrelsome מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים (miḏ·yā·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 4066: A contest, quarrel wife. מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת (mê·’ê·šeṯ) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female (24) It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop.--See above on Proverbs 21:9.Verse 24. - A repetition of Proverbs 21:9, taken therefore from the Solomonic collection. 25:19. Confidence in an unfaithful man is painful and vexatious; when we put any stress on him, he not only fails, but makes us feel for it. 20. We take a wrong course if we think to relieve those in sorrow by endeavouring to make them merry. 21,22. The precept to love even our enemies is an Old Testament commandment. Our Saviour has shown his own great example in loving us when we were enemies. 23. Slanders would not be so readily spoken, if they were not readily heard. Sin, if it receives any check, becomes cowardly. 24. It is better to be alone, than to be joined to one who is a hinderance to the comfort of life. 25. Heaven is a country afar off; how refreshing is good news from thence, in the everlasting gospel, which signifies glad tidings, and in the witness of the Spirit with our spirits that we are God's children! 26. When the righteous are led into sin, it is as hurtful as if the public fountains were poisoned. 27. We must be, through grace, dead to the pleasures of sense, and also to the praises of men. 28. The man who has no command over his anger, is easily robbed of peace. Let us give up ourselves to the Lord, and pray him to put his Spirit within us, and cause us to walk in his statutes. 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