Proverbs 21:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Better to live in a wilderness than with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:9

Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife.

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had a traveller’s lodging place in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a solemn assembly of treacherous people.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.

Proverbs 27:15

An endless dripping on a rainy day and a nagging wife are alike;

Proverbs 30:23

an unloved woman when she marries, and a servant girl when she ousts her queen.