Proverbs 21:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Proverbs 19:13

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

Proverbs 21:9

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

Proverbs 27:15

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

Proverbs 30:23

an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

Jeremiah 9:2

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