Proverbs 25:24
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New International Version (©1984)
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

New Living Translation (©2007)
It's better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.

English Standard Version (©2001)
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It is better to live in a corner of the roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
It is better to dwell on the corner of a roof than to dwell with a contentious woman in a house of divisions.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Better to live on a corner of a roof than to share a home with a quarreling woman.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a whole house.

American King James Version
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

American Standard Version
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

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

Darby Bible Translation
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.

English Revised Version
It is better to dwell in the comer of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Webster's Bible Translation
It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

World English Bible
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Young's Literal Translation
Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the Proverbs 21:9 note.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

It is better to dwell in a corner - See the note on Proverbs 21:9 (note).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. See Gill on Proverbs 21:9.


Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

24 Better to sit on the top of a roof,

     Than a quarrelsome woman and a house in common.

A repetition of Proverbs 21:9.


Geneva Study Bible

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


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

24. (Compare Pr 21:9, 19).


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:19. Confidence in an unfaithful man is painful and vexatious; when we put any stress on him, he not only fails, but makes us feel for it. 20. We take a wrong course if we think to relieve those in sorrow by endeavouring to make them merry. 21,22. The precept to love even our enemies is an Old Testament commandment. Our Saviour has shown his own great example in loving us when we were enemies. 23. Slanders would not be so readily spoken, if they were not readily heard. Sin, if it receives any check, becomes cowardly. 24. It is better to be alone, than to be joined to one who is a hinderance to the comfort of life. 25. Heaven is a country afar off; how refreshing is good news from thence, in the everlasting gospel, which signifies glad tidings, and in the witness of the Spirit with our spirits that we are God's children! 26. When the righteous are led into sin, it is as hurtful as if the public fountains were poisoned. 27. We must be, through grace, dead to the pleasures of sense, and also to the praises of men. 28. The man who has no command over his anger, is easily robbed of peace. Let us give up ourselves to the Lord, and pray him to put his Spirit within us, and cause us to walk in his statutes.


Proverbs 21:9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 25:25 Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.

Angle Better Brawling Common Company Contentions Contentious Corner Dwell House Housetop House-Top Live Quarrelsome Roof Share Shared Sit Wide Wife


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

19:13 21:9,19 27:15,16

Proverbs Chapter 25 Verse 24

Alphabetical: a Better contentious corner house in is It live of on quarrelsome roof share shared than the to wife with woman

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