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Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 21:9 · Geneva Bible
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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 The gathering of treasures by a deceitfull tongue is vanitie tossed to and from of them that seeke death.
7 The robberie of the wicked shall destroy them: for they haue refused to execute iudgement.
8 The way of some is peruerted and strange: but of the pure man, his worke is right.
9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.
10 The soule of the wicked wisheth euill: and his neighbour hath no fauour in his eyes.
11 When the scorner is punished, the foolish is wise: and when one instructeth the wise, he wil receiue knowledge.
12 The righteous teacheth the house of the wicked: but God ouerthroweth the wicked for their euill.
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