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Better to dwell on the corner of a roof
    than to share a house with a woman[a] of contention.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:9 Or “wife”

It’s better to live alone in the corner of an attic
    than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.

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19 Better to live in a land of wilderness
    than with a wife of quarrels and provocation.

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19 It’s better to live alone in the desert
    than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.

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