Proverbs 21:19

English Standard Version 2016

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the desert a travelers’ lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

Proverbs 30:23

an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.