Proverbs 21:9 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁹ It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, Than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop [on the flat oriental roof, exposed to all kinds of weather] than in a house shared with a nagging, quarrelsome, and faultfinding woman.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Common English Bible

⁹ Better to live on the edge of a roof than with a contentious woman in a large house.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with a contentious woman and in a shared house.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling women, and in a common house.

Proverbs 21:9 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 12:4

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Proverbs 15:17

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Proverbs 17:1

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

Proverbs 19:13

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Proverbs 21:10

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

Proverbs 21:19

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

Proverbs 21:8

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

Proverbs 25:24

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