The Corner

Another verse on a quarrelsome wife!

Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. (Proverbs 25:24)

Remember, the roofs of houses in bible days were used as extra rooms, places to look over the city, a spot of refuge, etc.  In this verse we see that it’s better for those living in the house to retreat to the roof to live, rather than live under the roof with a quarrelsome wife.

There are plenty of verses that speak to the husbands in the bible and their duties and care for the wife.  But three times in Proverbs (we’ll look at the third tomorrow) we read of a quarrelsome wife.

Television, books, and chatter at the water cooler include conversations about the  nagging of wives – which indeed leads to quarrels.  We often find fault with our husbands, mainly when we compare him to our “idea” of what a husband should be.  And in reality, all of our nagging and quarreling never changes him for the good; instead it sends him into retreat mode.

The only thing that does our husband good is to honor him and pray for him, and allow God to deal with him.  If we can learn this “oh-so-important” skill in a marriage, we will be happy, and our husbands will be disciplined by the Lord – who changes things. 

I don’t want to send my husband to the roof to get away from me, I want him sharing my house with me.