Proverbs 21:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious wife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, Than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop [on the flat oriental roof, exposed to all kinds of weather] than in a house shared with a nagging, quarrelsome, and faultfinding woman.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Common English Bible

⁹ Better to live on the edge of a roof than with a contentious woman in a large house.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with a contentious woman and in a shared house.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling women, and in a common house.

Proverbs 21:9 Cross References

Proverbs 12:4

A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 19:13

A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 21:10

The souls of the wicked desire evil; their neighbors find no mercy in their eyes.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful wife.

Proverbs 21:8

The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is right.

Proverbs 25:24

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious wife.