Proverbs 21:9
It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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
10The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:4A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.
Proverbs 17:1Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
Proverbs 27:15Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
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 →