It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
WEB
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
YLT
Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.
DBT
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.