the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Proverbs 21:9
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It's better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
It is better to live in a corner on the roof than inside the house with a quarreling wife.
[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop [on the flat roof, exposed to the weather] Than in a house shared with a quarrelsome (contentious) woman.
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
It is betere to sitte in the corner of an hous with oute roof, than with a womman ful of chydyng, and in a comyn hous.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
It's better to stay outside on the roof of your house than to live inside with a nagging wife.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
It is better to live on a corner of the roof than to share the house with a nagging wife.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.
It is better to live in a small corner on the roof than to share the house with a woman who is always arguing.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than in a house in common with a contentious woman.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top; then with a brawling woman in a wide house.
It is better to live in a corner of a roof than in a house shared with an arguing woman.
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious wife.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.
It is better to dwell alone in a corner of the housetop than to live with a quarrelsome woman in a large house.
Better to live on the roof than share the house with a nagging wife.
Better to dwell on the corner of the roof, than a quarrelsome wife, and a house in common.
It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
It is better to dwel in a corner on the house toppe, then with a brawling woman in a wide house.
It is better to dwell in a corner on the house-top, than in plastered rooms with unrighteousness, and in an open house.
Better to live on the corner of a roofthan to share a house with a nagging wife.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Better to dwell on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a woman of contention.
It is better to dwell on a corner of a housetop, than with a contentious woman, and to share a house.
Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than [with] a woman of contentions and a house of company.
It is better to dwell in a corner vnder ye house toppe, then with a braulinge woman in a wyde house.
Better to live alone in a tumbledown shack than share a mansion with a nagging spouse.
It is better to live on a corner of a roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
It is better to live in a corner of a roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
It is better to live in a corner of a roofThan in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
better: Proverbs 21:19, Proverbs 12:4, Proverbs 19:13, Proverbs 25:24, Proverbs 27:15, Proverbs 27:16
brawling woman in a wide house: Heb. woman of contentions in a house of society, Proverbs 15:17, Proverbs 17:1
Reciprocal: Proverbs 9:13 - General Proverbs 14:1 - the foolish Proverbs 30:23 - an odious Matthew 19:10 - General
Cross-References
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.
The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.
Abraham named his son—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac.
(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."
But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too."
Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.
Now swear to me right here in God's name that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. Show me, and the land where you are staying, the same loyalty that I have shown you."
Abraham said, "I swear to do this."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop,.... The roofs of houses in Judea were that, encompassed with battlements, whither persons might retire for solitude, and sit in safety: and it is better to be in a corner of such a roof alone, and be exposed to scorching heat, to blustering winds, to thunder storms and showers of rain,
than with a brawling woman in a wide house; large and spacious, full of rooms, fit for a numerous family: or, "an house of society" u; where many families might dwell and live sociably with each other; or a house where a man, his wife and family, might dwell together, and have communion with each other; it is opposed to the corner of the housetop, and the solitariness of it; as the scolding of the brawling woman, or "a woman of contentions" w, who is always noisy and quarrelsome, her violent passions, her storming language, and thundering voice, are to the inclemencies of the heavens, to which a man on the housetop is exposed; and yet these are more eligible than the other; see
Proverbs 21:19.
u ובית חבר "domo societatis", Montanus, Vatablus, Baynus, Mercerus, Michaelis, "et domus societatis", Schultens. w מאשת מדונים "prae muliere contentionum", Montanus, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A wide house - literally, “a house of companionship,” i. e., a house shared with her. The flat roof of an Eastern house was often used for retirement by day, or in summer for sleep by night. The corner of such a roof was exposed to all changes of weather, and the point of the proverb lies in the thought that all winds and storms which a man might meet with there are more endurable than the tempest within.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 21:9. In a corner of the housetop — A shed raised on the flat roof: - a wide house; בית חבר beith chaber, "a house of fellowship;" what we should call a lodging-house, or a house occupied by several families. This was usual in the East, as well as in the West. Some think a house of festivity is meant: hence my old MS. Bible has, the hous and feste.
