Proverbs 21:19

The Scriptures 1998

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and vexed woman.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is a calamity to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in a corner of a roof, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

Proverbs 27:15

Drops that never cease on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;

Proverbs 30:23

Under a hated woman who marries, And a female servant who supplants her mistress.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men, and I would leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.