9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. …
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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