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It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.
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Worse Than Any Storm
Commentators explain the stark contrast in this proverb. The 'corner of the housetop' was a small, exposed space on a flat roof, subject to harsh weather. Yet, the verse says this is preferable to a 'wide house'—which literally means a 'house of companionship'—filled with strife. The point is that the emotional 'tempest within' a home is more unbearable than any physical storm outside.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A wide house - literally, “a house of companionship,” that is, a house shared with her. The flat roof of an Eastern house was often used as …
19th Century
Anglican
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop.— Though there exposed to all the storms of heaven. The flat tops of ho…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop. The roofs of houses in Judea were that, encompassed with battlements…
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