Proverbs 21:19

Bible in Basic English 1965

It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

Proverbs 27:15

Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

Proverbs 30:23

A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.