OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 21:9

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9

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

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Verse 9. Top, (domatis) as the roofs in Palestine were flat. Saint Jerome ad Sun.—Any inconvenience had better be endured, than to live with the quarrelsome. Menochius.

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