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9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 21:9 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 9)See here, 1. What a great affliction it is to a man to have a brawling scolding woman for his wife, who upon every occasion, and often upon no occasion, breaks out into a passion, and chides either him or those about her, is fretful to herself and furious to her children and servants, and, in both, vexatious to her husband. If a man has a wide house, spacious and pompous, this will embitter the co...
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