Proverbs 21:9 (BSB)

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

From Proverbs 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 21:9

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 21:9: 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.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 21:9: It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop,.... 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 21:9: corner--a turret or arbor on the roof. brawling--or contentious. wide house--literally, "house of fellowship," large enough for several families.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 21:9: Pro 21:9 The group now following extends to Pro 21:18, where a new one begins with a variation of its initial verse. 9 Better to sit on the pinnacle of a house-roof, Than a contentious wife and a house in common. We have neither to supplement the second line: than with a contentious wife...