Proverbs 21:19
It is better to live in a deserted land, than with a quarrelsome and emotional woman.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 55:6All day long, they curse my words. All their intentions are for evil against me.
Proverbs 21:9It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with a contentious woman and in a shared house.
Proverbs 30:23by a hateful woman when she has been taken in matrimony, and by a handmaid when she has been heir to her mistress.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:19
18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. This intimates, 1. What should be done by the justice of men: The wicked, that are the troublers of a land, ought to be punished, for the preventing and turning away of those national judgments which otherwise will be inflicted and in which even the righteous are many times involved. Thus when Achan was stoned he was a ransom for the camp of righteous Israel; and the seven sons of Saul, when they were hanged, were a ransom for… Read the whole commentary →