Proverbs 25:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 foolish son is the calamity of his father: And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Proverbs 21:9

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

Proverbs 25:25

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, So is good news from a far country.