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Proverbs 21:19

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Better to live in a desert

than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.h

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  1. h ver 9

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.

KJV 1900King James Version

It is better to dwell in the wilderness,

Than with a contentious and an angry woman.