Proverbs 25:24
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 the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
In Context
23In the same way that the north wind brings rain, slandering people makes them angry.
25Good news from a distant country is like cold water to an exhausted traveler.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:13A stupid son makes his father miserable, and an argumentative wife is like dripping that never stops.
Proverbs 21:19It's better to live in a desert than with an argumentative and bad-tempered wife.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:24
Miscellaneous Maxims. 23 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. Here see, 1. How we must discourage sin and witness against it, and particularly the sin of slandering and backbiting; we must frown upon it, and, by giving it an angry countenance, endeavour to put it out of countenance. Slanders would not be so readily spoken as they are if they were not readily heard; but good manners would silence the slanderer if he saw that his tales displeased the company. We should… Read the whole commentary →