Proverbs 21:19

New American Bible - revised edition

It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome wife and trouble.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:13

The foolish son is ruin to his father, and a quarrelsome wife is water constantly dripping.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than in a mansion with a quarrelsome woman.

Proverbs 27:15

For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome wife;

Proverbs 30:23

Under an unloved woman who is wed, and a maidservant who displaces her mistress.

Jeremiah 9:2

They ready their tongues like a drawn bow; with lying, and not with truth, they are powerful in the land. They go from evil to evil, and me they do not know—oracle of the Lord.