Proverbs 21:9
It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling women, and in a common house.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
In Context
8The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.
10The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:4A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is a rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 17:1Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.
Proverbs 27:15Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:9
8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right. This shows that as men are so is their way. 1. Evil men have evil ways. If the man be froward, his way also is strange; and this is the way of most men, such is the general corruption of mankind. They have all gone aside ( Ps. xiv. 2, 3 ); all flesh have perverted their way. But the froward man, the man of deceit, that acts by craft and trick in all he does, his way is strange, contrary to all the rules of honour and honesty. It is… Read the whole commentary →