Proverbs 21:9
It's better to live in a corner of a housetop than to share a whole house with an argumentative wife.
Free Bible Version
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
8Guilty people live crooked lives, but the innocent follow straight paths.
10Evil people love to do wrong, they don't care what pain they cause anyone.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:4A good wife is a crown for her husband, but one who brings shame is like rot in his bones.
Proverbs 17:1Better to eat a dry scrap in peace than to feast in a house full of people arguing.
Proverbs 21:19It's better to live in a desert than with an argumentative and bad-tempered wife.
Proverbs 27:15An argumentative wife is as irritating as constant dripping on a rainy day.
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 →