Proverbs 25:24 - It is better to dwell in the corner of

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

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

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

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

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

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

Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with an argumentative woman and in a shared house.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Compare the Proverbs 21:9 note.

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

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.

It is better to be alone, than to be joined to one who is a hinderance to the comfort of life.

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.

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