Proverbs 21:9
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Berean Standard Bible
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 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.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:4A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
Proverbs 17:1Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
Proverbs 21:19Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Proverbs 27:15A constant dripping on a rainy 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 →