Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a quarrelsome and vexatious woman.
Leeser Tanakh
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 55:6(55:7) And I said, Oh that some one would give me wings like a dove! I would fly away and dwell [quietly].
Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in a corner of a roof, than with a quarrelsome woman in a roomy house.
Proverbs 30:23Under an odious woman when she is married, and a bond-woman when she dispossesseth 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 →