Contemporary english version it s better to stay outside on the roof of your house than to live inside with a nagging wife.
It better to live on the corner of your roof.
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.
Holman christian standard bible.
Then with a brawling woman in a wide house 1611 king james version kjv viewing the original 1611 kjv with archaic english spelling.
Good news translation better to live on the roof than share the house with a nagging wife.
Houses back in bible days had flat roofs.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a disagreeing quarrelsome and scolding woman.
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.
Proverbs 21 9 it is better to dwell in a corner of the house top.
New heart english bible.
The complete jewish bible.
Proverbs 21 9 it is better to live dwell sit on the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a quarrelsome contentious brawling bitter tongued wife.
Net bible it is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.
It is better to live on a corner of the roof than to share the house with a nagging wife.
Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife.
But it was exposed to all manner of weather.
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop on the flat roof exposed to the weather than in a house shared with a quarrelsome contentious woman.
When proverbs says it is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife it means that this greater ease greater comfort greater peace of the housetop over going downstairs and loving this woman is true.