Parallel Verses
World English Bible
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman, quarrelsome and provoking.
Webster
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry 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 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous for the upright. 19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman. 20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Psalm 55:6-7
I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
Psalm 120:5-6
Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.