Proverbs 21:9
It is better to live in the corner of an attic/housetop by yourself than to live inside the house with a wife who is always nagging.
Translation for Translators
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
10Wicked people [SYN] are always wanting to do what is evil; they never act mercifully toward anyone.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:4A good wife is one who causes her husband to be greatly honored, but a wife who does things that cause her husband to be ashamed will destroy him like [SIM] cancer destroys his bones.
Proverbs 17:1It is better to eat a dry piece of bread and not have strife/quarrels than to have a big feast in a house where everyone is quarreling.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to live alone in a desert than to live with a wife who is always nagging and complaining.
Proverbs 27:15Having a wife that is constantly nagging is as bad as listening to rain continually 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 →