Proverbs 21:19

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling women, and in a common house.

Jeremiah 9:2

Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people and depart from them, because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors?

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

Proverbs 27:15

Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

Proverbs 30:23

By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.