Add parallel Print Page Options

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop
    than in a mansion with a quarrelsome woman.[a](A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 21:9 In Proverbs, two great obstacles to a happy household are foolish children and quarrelsome spouses. The nagging wife is also mentioned in 19:13 and 27:15; 25:24 is a duplicate.

24 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop
    than in a mansion with a quarrelsome wife.[a](A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 25:24 A humorous saying about domestic unhappiness: better to live alone outdoors than indoors with an angry spouse. Prv 21:9 is identical and 21:19 is similar in thought.