It is better to dwell on the corner of a roof than to dwell with a contentious woman in a house of divisions.
Proverb about a woman on the corner of her roof.
One of the most common weaknesses in man is his inability to control his impulse for physical pleasure or his deeply held desire to win approval from a woman.
Proverbs 12 4 a virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
Jps tanakh 1917 it is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than in a house in common with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 21 9 wyc it is better to sit in the corner of an house without roof than with a woman full of chiding and in a common house.
It is better to sit in the corner of a house without a roof than with a woman full of arguments or of bickering in a house together.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Ampc it is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop on the flat oriental roof exposed to all kinds of weather than in a house shared with a nagging quarrelsome and faultfinding woman.
But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 21 9 better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife explanation and commentary of proverbs 21 9.
She is a constant frustration like a leaky roof that does not stop dripping proverbs 19 13.
So proverbs warns is the effect of a quarrelsome woman over the home.
In fact it is better to live in the desert or on the corner of a roof than to share a home with a woman of such character proverbs 21 9 19.