Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Mieux vaut habiter à l'angle d'un toit, Que de partager la demeure d'une femme querelleuse.
KJV
[It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
[It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 139 (Migne)
gat, caelebs est:» Melius est inhabitare in angulo tecti, quam cum uxore maledica in domo communi (Prov. XXV, 24) : assiduis quippe jurgiis, et quotidiana garrulitate facit perpluere domum ejus, et ejicit eum de aedibus suis, id est de Ecclesia. Aestimo quod qui uxorem habet, q…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 202 (Migne)
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