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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.
Proverbs 21:9 · Bible in Basic English
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Proverbs 21:9 in other translations
It 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.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
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In context
6 He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.
8 Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.
9 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
10 The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.
11 When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.
12 The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.
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