It is better to live on a corner of a roof
Than [a]in a house shared with a contentious woman.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:9 Lit with a woman of contentions and a house of association

Better to live on a corner of the roof
    than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.(A)

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19 (A)It is better to live in a desert land
Than with a contentious and irritating woman.

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19 Better to live in a desert
    than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.(A)

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15 A (A)constant dripping on a day of steady rain
And a contentious woman are alike;

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15 A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping(A)
    of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;

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