The King James Version Bible

Proverbs 21:9

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

Cross References

  1. A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
  2. It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
  3. It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
  4. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
  5. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
  6. Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
  7. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.