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Proverbs 21:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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