Proverbs 21:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:13 : 13 ¶ A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
  • Prov 21:19 : 19 ¶ [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
  • Prov 25:24 : 24 ¶ [It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
  • Prov 27:15-16 : 15 ¶ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. 16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].
  • Prov 12:4 : 4 ¶ A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.
  • Prov 15:17 : 17 Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
  • Prov 17:1 : 1 ¶ Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 24 ¶ [It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

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    19 ¶ [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

    20 ¶ [There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

  • Prov 9:13-14
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    76%

    13 ¶ A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.

    14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

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    15 ¶ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

    16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].

  • 1 ¶ Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.

  • Prov 7:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

    12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • 1 ¶ Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

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    13 ¶ A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.

    14 ¶ House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    73%

    8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

    9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

  • 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

  • 23 For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

  • 29 ¶ He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise of heart.

  • 22 ¶ [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.

  • 5 [It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

  • 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • 10 ¶ The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

  • 9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • 3 ¶ [It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

  • 1 ¶ Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity, than [he that is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

  • 17 ¶ Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and [so] hate thee.

  • 6 Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.

  • 11 ¶ The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

  • 22 ¶ [Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

  • 14 ¶ The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

  • 27 ¶ Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

  • 12 ¶ The righteous [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.

  • 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

  • 10 [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

  • 9 ¶ [If] a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, [there is] no rest.

  • 27 Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

  • 18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

  • 19 ¶ Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

  • 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

  • 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.

  • 27 For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.

  • 22 ¶ A wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

  • 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

  • 4 ¶ A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.

  • 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

  • 23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

  • 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

  • 8 ¶ As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.