Proverbs 25:24
Good News Translation
Better to live on the roof than share the house with a nagging wife.

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 wife.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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

Proverbs 21:9,19 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. . . .

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

Context
More Proverbs of Solomon
23The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue. 24It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.25As cold water to a thirsty soul, so are good tidings from a far country.…
Cross References
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

Proverbs 25:25
As cold water to a thirsty soul, so are good tidings from a far country.

Proverbs 25:23
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