It Better To Live On The Corner Of Your Roof

Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife.

It better to live on the corner of your roof.

Contemporary english version it s better to stay outside on the roof of your house than to live inside with a nagging wife. But it was exposed to all manner of weather. 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. International standard version it s better to live in a corner on the roof than in a house with a contentious woman.

Good news translation better to live on the roof than share the house with a nagging wife. 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. Net bible it is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife. Proverbs 21 9 it is better to dwell in a corner of the house top.

Holman christian standard bible. Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife. It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a disagreeing quarrelsome and scolding woman. Houses back in bible days had flat roofs.

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. New heart english bible. 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 the corner of the housetop than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

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.