Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
In Context
18The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.
Cross References
Psalms 55:6My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.
Proverbs 21:9It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling women, and in a common house.
Proverbs 30:23By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is 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 →