Proverbs 21:19 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land than with a contentious woman and with vexation.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Better to live in a wilderness than in a house with a contentious and angry woman.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ It is better to live in a deserted land, than with a quarrelsome and emotional woman.

Proverbs 21:19 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.

Proverbs 21:9

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

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

Proverbs 30:23

for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who 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 are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.