John Trapp on Proverbs 21:9

Verſ. 9. It is better to dwell in a corner of the houſe-top] Their houſe-tops were made flat by order of the Law. The ſenſe is then, A man had better abide abroad, ſub dio, expoſed to wind and weather, yea to croud into a corner, and to live in a Little-eaſe, than to cohabit in a convenient houſe with a contentious woman, that is ever brawling and brangling, that turns conjugium into conjurgium by inſerting the Dogs letter (r) and leading her husband a Dogs life. Such a one was Zillah, Peninnah, Xantippe, the wife of Phoroneus the Law giver,Bruſon. lib. 7. cap. 22. who upon his death-bed told his brother, Hee had been a man happy if hee had never married. Ariſtotle affirms, that hee that hath miſcarried in a wife,Ariſt. in Rhet. hath loſt more than half the happineſs of his life. Rubius Celer, and Albutius Tertius were held happy among the Romans, becauſe the former had lived with a wife three and forty years, and eight months, the latter five and twenty years, ſine querela, without quarrelling or contending. And this they gave order ſhould bee engraven upon their Grave-ſtones. See the Note on Prov. 19.13.