Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman, quarrelsome and provoking.
New American Standard Bible
Than with a contentious and vexing woman.
King James Version
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Holman Bible
than with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.
International Standard Version
It's better to live in the wilderness than to live with a contentious and irritable woman.
A Conservative Version
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
American Standard Version
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Amplified
It is better to dwell in a desert land
Than with a contentious and troublesome woman.
Bible in Basic English
It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
Darby Translation
It is better to dwell in a desert land. than with a contentious and irritable woman.
Julia Smith Translation
Good to dwell in the land of the desert rather than with a woman of contentions and anger.
King James 2000
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Better to live in a land of wilderness than [with] a wife of quarrels and provocation.
Modern King James verseion
It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a quarrelsome and angry woman.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a chiding and an angry woman.
NET Bible
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and easily-provoked woman.
New Heart English Bible
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Webster
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
World English Bible
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Youngs Literal Translation
Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger.
Themes
Anger » Connected with » Strife and contention
Family » Parental prayers » Strife in
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
18 A ransom for the righteous, is the lawless, and, instead of upright men, the traitor. 19 Better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman, quarrelsome and provoking. 20 Desirable treasure and oil, are in the home of the wise, but, a man who is a dullard, will destroy it.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:9
Better to dwell on the corner of the roof, than a quarrelsome wife, and a house in common.
Psalm 55:6-7
Then I said - Oh that there were given me a pinion, like a dove, I would fly away and be at rest:
Psalm 120:5-6
Woe is me, That I sojourn in Meshek, - That I abide near the tents of Kedar!
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness, a wayfarers lodge, That I might leave my people, and go from them, - For they all, are Adulterers, An assemblage of traitors;