Proverbs 21:19
It is better to live alone in a desert than to live with a wife who is always nagging and complaining.
Translation for Translators
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 55:6I said, “I wish that I had wings like a dove! If I had wings, I would fly away and find a place to rest.
Proverbs 21:9It is better to live in the corner of an attic/housetop by yourself than to live inside the house with a wife who is always nagging.
Proverbs 30:23what a woman who is hated does when she gets married, and what a female servant does when she becomes the boss instead of 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 →