Proverbs 21:9
It is better to sit in the corner of an house without roof, than with a woman full of chiding, and in a common house. (It is better to sit in the corner of a house without a roof, than with a woman full of arguments, or of bickering, in a house together.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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
Cross References
Proverbs 12:4A diligent woman is a crown to her husband; and rot is in the bones of that woman, that doeth things worthy of confusion. (A diligent woman is a crown to her husband; but rot is in the bones of her, who doeth shameful things.)
Proverbs 17:1Better is a dry morsel with joy, than an house full of sacrifices with chiding, ( or with arguments).
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman full of chiding, and wrathful.
Proverbs 27:15Roofs dropping in the day of cold, and a woman full of chiding, be likened together. (Roofs dripping rain on a cold day, and a woman full of arguments, or of bickering, be quite similar.)
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 →