Proverbs 25:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ 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

²⁴ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a disagreeing, quarrelsome, and scolding woman. [Prov. 21:9.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Better to live on the edge of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with an argumentative woman and in a shared house.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ It is better to sit m a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

Proverbs 25:24 Cross References

Proverbs 19:13

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

Proverbs 21:19

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

Proverbs 21:9

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

Proverbs 25:25

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.