Proverbs 21:19

A Conservative Version

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike.

Proverbs 30:23

for a hateful woman when she is married, and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.