Proverbs 21:19

Modern English Version

It is better to live in the wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and angry wife.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the ruin of his father, and the quarrels of a wife are a constant dripping.

Proverbs 21:9

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

Proverbs 27:15

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

Proverbs 30:23

a hateful woman when she is married, and a servant girl who displaces her mistress.

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 all are adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.