Proverbs 21:19
Better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman, quarrelsome and provoking.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
In Context
18A ransom for the righteous, is the lawless, and, instead of upright men, the traitor.
Cross References
Psalms 55:6Then I said—Oh that there were given me a pinion, like a dove, I would fly away and be at rest:
Proverbs 21:9Better to dwell on the corner of the roof, than a quarrelsome wife, and a house in common.
Proverbs 30:23Under a hateful woman, when she is married, and a handmaid when she driveth out 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 →