Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
General references
Bible References
Better
Proverbs 21:9
Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than with a woman of contentions and a house of company.
Psalm 55:6
And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,
Psalm 120:5
Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.
Jeremiah 9:2
Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
General references
Proverbs 9:13
A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.
Proverbs 15:17
Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
Proverbs 25:24
Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.
Matthew 19:10
His disciples say to him, 'If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'