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Proverbs 25:24
It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 25:24 · Geneva Bible
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Proverbs 25:24 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.
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
21 If hee that hateth thee be hungry, giue him bread to eate, and if he be thirstie, giue him water to drinke.
22 For thou shalt lay coles vpon his head, and the Lord shall recompense thee.
23 As the Northwinde driueth away the raine, so doeth an angry countenance the slandering tongue.
24 It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.
25 As are the colde waters to a weary soule, so is good newes from a farre countery.
26 A righteous man falling downe before the wicked, is like a troubled well, and a corrupt spring.
27 It is not good to eate much hony: so to search their owne glory is not glory.
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