George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 21:9
Top, ( domatis) as the roofs in Palestine were flat. (St. Jerome, ad Sun.) --- Any inconvenience had better be endured, than to live with the quarrelsome. (Menochius)
Top, ( domatis) as the roofs in Palestine were flat. (St. Jerome, ad Sun.) --- Any inconvenience had better be endured, than to live with the quarrelsome. (Menochius)
Verse Proverbs 21:9. _IN A CORNER OF THE HOUSETOP_] A shed raised on the _flat_ _roof_: - _a wide house_; בית חבר beith chaber, "a house of fellowship;" what we should call a _lodging-house_, or a _h...
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 retirement by day, or in summer for sleep by night. The corne...
CHAPTER 21 PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO LIFE AND CONDUCT In the proverbs of this chapter the Lord is mentioned five times. “The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: He turne...
PROVERBS 21:1. WATERCOURSES: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Proverbs 21:4....
BETTER. See note on Proverbs 8:11....
_in a corner of the housetop_ The LXX. render ἐπὶ γωνίας ὑπαίθρου, with no better hiding-place from the storms of heaven than the narrow corner in which the parapet walls of the flat roof meet (Deuter...
CHAPTER 21 TEXT Proverbs 21:1-10 1. The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the water courses: He turneth it whithersoever he will. 2. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But Jeho...
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 HOUSE-TOP (THOUGH EXPOSED THERE TO WIND, RAIN, HEAT, AND CO...
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 for two friends; the whole world is too narrow for two foe...
1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon (Isaiah 58:11)....
The corner of a roof is not a comfortable place to live. But it is better than a big house, if the man’s wife argues. This man escapes to his roof. We should not argue. We should aim to be content. S...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 21 V1 A king is like a canal that God controls. God leads the king in the way that God decides....
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, used for exercise (2 Samuel 11:2), sleeping, (1 Samuel...
טֹ֗וב לָ שֶׁ֥בֶת עַל ־פִּנַּת ־גָּ֑ג מֵ
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 translation has an interesting addition to the proverb in...
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, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man to f...
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 findeth no favour in his eyes. When the scorner is pu...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
[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 b...
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 a corner of the house top._] Their house tops were mad...
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 of weather, THAN WITH A BRAWLING WOMAN, one always na...
A BRAWLING WOMAN: _ Heb._ a woman of contentions A WIDE HOUSE: _ Heb._ an house of society...
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 was flat and plain, and habitable, but was exposed to al...
Proverbs 21:9 Better H2896 dwell H3427 (H8800) corner H6438 housetop H1406 house H1004 shared H2267 contentious H4079
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who follow after righteousness, shall find righteousness, honor and life. KEY WORD: Counsel (Proverbs 20:5). STRONG VERSES: P...
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 to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn field...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 21:9 Verses Proverbs 21:9 and Proverbs 21:19, on the q
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 21:9. WIDE HOUSE. Literally _a house of companionship_, _i.e._, to share the house with her. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 21:19_ AN ANGRY WOMAN...
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 for irrigation. As these are altogether under the gardener's...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Proverbs 21:1-31. Proverbs 21:1-31, Solomon declares: The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will (Prov...
Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 17:1; Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 19:13;...