Brawling Woman

Pro 25:24  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. 

Brawling - H4079 - A variation for H4066.

• H4066 - From H1777; a contest or quarrel.
• H1777 - A primitive root (compare H113); to rule; by implication to judge (as umpire); also to strive (as at law).

H4079 is used 9 times in 9 verses:

Pro 18:18  The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

Pro 18:19  A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

Pro 19:13  A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Pro 21:9  It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Pro 21:19  It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Pro 23:29  Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Pro 25:24  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. 

Pro 26:21  As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Pro 27:15  A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. 

Ouch.  Out of 9 verses, 5 use brawling/contentious of woman. Ouch.

We can be a:

Continual dropping - ever have an annoying dripping faucet?

Dwell in the corner of the house top - man cave?

Dwell in the wilderness - 

Wilderness - H4057 - From H1696 in the sense of driving; a pasture (that is, open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication a desert; also speech (including its organs).

• H1696 - A primitive root; perhaps properly to arrange; but used figuratively (of words) to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue.

Interesting...when I think of wilderness, I think of untamed land, penetrable only by slashing through, no roads or even a navigable path.  It can simply mean uninhabited.  Solitary (or solitude if you're being nagged).

Gill's commentary:

"It is better to dwell in the wilderness,.... Where persons live without shelter, and are not only exposed to storms and tempests, but to beasts of prey; where is want of the necessaries of life, and no society; where no "speech" is, as the word (e) for wilderness may signify; yet it is better to dwell in such a place, where no human voice is heard."

This isn't referring to (the fallacy) of women talking more than men (I've met me who talk more than women, in fact a LOT); rather, how she is communicating.  So ladies, how are we communicating to one another?  Specifically if you're married there is the challenge of communicating your likes, and dislikes, to your spouse without being quarrelsome.

Good communication requires effort for all involved.  It hears everything through the 'ears' of love.  Speaks with the 'tongue' of love.  May the Lord help each of us to strive to glorify Him - that we not be perceived as contentious, driving anyone out into the wilderness or rooftop!