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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 is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop
    than to share a house with a contentious woman.

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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 is better to dwell in a desert land,
    than with a contentious and fretful woman.

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