SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:9
¶ Mejor es vivir en un rincón del terrado que con la mujer rencillosa en espaciosa casa.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:9
Verse 9. In a corner of the housetop ] A shed raised on the flat roof. - a wide house; rbj tyb beith chaber, "a house of fellowship;" what we should call a lodging-house, or a house occupied by several families. This was usual in the East, as well as in the West. Some think a house of festivity is meant: hence my old MS. Bible has, "the hous and feste".
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop , etc.] The roofs of houses in Judea were that, encompassed with battlements, whither persons might retire for solitude, and sit in safety: and it is better to be in a corner of such a roof alone, and be exposed to scorching heat, to blustering winds, to thunder storms and showers of rain, than with a brawling woman in a wide house ; large and spacious, full of rooms, fit for a numerous family: or, “an house of society” f575 ; where many families might dwell and live sociably with each other; or a house where a man, his wife and family, might dwell together, and have communion with each other; it is opposed to the corner of the housetop, and the solitariness of it; as the scolding of the brawling woman, or “a woman of contentions” f576 , who is always noisy and quarrelsome, her violent passions, her storming language, and thundering voice, are to the inclemencies of the heavens, to which a man on the housetop is exposed; and yet these are more eligible than the other; see ( Proverbs 21:19 17:1 19:13).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9 - It is best to shun bitter contention by pouring out the heart befor God. For by prudence and patience, with constant prayer, the cross ma be removed.
Original Hebrew
טוב 2896 לשׁבת 3427 על 5921 פנת 6438 גג 1406 מאשׁת 802 מדינים 4079 ובית 1004 חבר׃ 2267
