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Proverbs 21:9

New Century Version

It is better to live in a corner on the roof than inside the house with a quarreling wife.

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A good wife is like a crown for her husband, but a disgraceful wife is like a disease in his bones.

It is better to eat vegetables with those who love you than to eat meat with those who hate you.

It is better to eat a dry crust of bread in peace than to have a feast where there is quarreling.

A foolish child brings disaster to a father, and a quarreling wife is like dripping water.

Evil people only want to harm others. Their neighbors get no mercy from them.

It is better to live alone in the desert than with a quarreling and complaining wife.

Guilty people live dishonest lives, but honest people do right.

It is better to live in a corner on the roof than inside the house with a quarreling wife.