Proverbs 21:9

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁹Better to live on the corner of a roof
than to share a house with a nagging wife.^(A)

Proverbs 21:9

Common English Bible

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

⁹Better to live on a corner of the roof
than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.^(A)

¹⁹Better to live in a wilderness
than with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.^(A)

¹⁹Better to live in a wilderness
than in a house with a contentious and angry woman.

¹⁹Better to live in a desert
than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.^(A)

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