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Proverbs 21:9

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[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

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A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.

[It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

[It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious (loving to quarrel and angrily debate) and an angry woman.

A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that makes ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.

Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.

The way of man [is] perverse (twisted) [habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition] and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.

The soul of the wicked desires evil: his neighbour finds no favour in his eyes.