Proverbs Chapter 21 verse 19 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
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BBE Proverbs 21:19

It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
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DARBY Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a desert land. than with a contentious and irritable woman.
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KJV Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
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WBT Proverbs 21:19


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WEB Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
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YLT Proverbs 21:19

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than `with' a woman of contentions and anger.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - A variant of ver. 9. Here, instead of the "corner of the roof," we have a wilderness, a desert land, as the refuge to which the persecuted man must flee. Than with a contentious and an angry (fretful) woman. So the Vulgate. But it seems better, with many modern commentators, to take וָכָעַם, not as another epithet, but as equivalent to "and vexation," i.e. a quarrelsome wife, and the vexation that accompanies such an infliction. The LXX. adds a word to the text, as being at the root of the matter, "Than with a quarrelsome, talkative, and passionate woman."

Ellicott's Commentary