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

Contemporary English Version
It's better to stay outside on the roof of your house than to live inside with a nagging wife.

New American Bible
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than in a mansion with a quarrelsome woman.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

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

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Proverbs 21:19 It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

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Proverbs 12:4 The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

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Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

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Proverbs 25:24 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

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Proverbs 27:15,16 Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike. . . .

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Proverbs 15:17 It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.

Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.