Proverbs 25:24
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It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
In other translations
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
- Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- Proverbs 27:15-1615 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. 16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.15 A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike— 16 restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.
- Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
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