Proverbs 21:19

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

Proverbs 30:23

For an odious woman when she is married; And an handmaid that is heir to 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 be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.