Proverbs 21:19

WEB

¹⁹It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

KJV

¹⁹It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

BSB

¹⁹Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

FBV

¹⁹^[+] It's better to live in a desert than with an argumentative and bad-tempered wife.

Extra References

Proverbs 21:9

⁹It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Psalms 55:6-7

⁶I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest. ⁷Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.

Psalms 120:5-6

⁵Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! ⁶My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

Jeremiah 9:2

²Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.