Proverbs 21:9

better. See note on Proverbs 8:11.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 21:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A wide house - literally, “a house of companionship,” i. e., a house shared with her. The flat roof of an Eastern house was often used for retire...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 21:1 . watercourses: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which cou...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. In a corner of the housetop - A shed raised on the f...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. (It is) better to dwell in a corner of the hou...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon ( Isaiah 58:11 ).
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A small room is often built on the flat roof of an Oriental house ( 1 Kings 17:19 ; 2 Kings 4:10 ; Psalms 102:7 ). 'A needle's eye is wide enough f...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop. — Though there exposed to all the storms of heaven. The flat tops of houses were, in the East, u...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 21:4 . The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, the...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour fi...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop ,.... The roofs of houses in Judea were that, encompassed with battlements, whither persons migh...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 21:9 [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Ver. 9. It is better to dwell in...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. See here, 1. What a great afflict...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To dwell, to wit, alone in quietness, as appears from the opposite clause. Of the house-top; of the roof of the house, which in those countries w...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 21:9 . Wide house . Literally a house of companionship , i.e. , to share the house with her. MAIN HOMILETICS OF Pr...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 21:1 . The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. The allusion is probably...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water. We are to think of the little channels used...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 9. It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, seated alone and forsaken on the parapet of the Oriental flat roof, exposed to every form...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:17 ; Proverbs 17:1 ; Proverbs 12:4 ; Proverbs 19:13 ; Proverbs 21:19 ; Proverbs 25:24 ; Proverbs 27:15 ; Proverbs 27:16

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawlingb woman in a wide house.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 21:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 21:9