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Proverbs 21:19

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19oIt is better to dwell †in the wilderness,

Than with a contentious and an angry woman.

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Footnotes

  1. oSee ver. 9. So Ecclus. 25:16, 23. Matt. 19:10.
  2. †Heb. in the land of the desert.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

It is better to live in a desert land

than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Better to live in a desert

than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Better to live in a wilderness

than with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.

NLTNew Living Translation

It’s better to live alone in the desert

than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Better to live in a land of wilderness

than with a wife of quarrels and provocation.