Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
- Jer 9:2 : 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.
- Ps 55:6-7 : 6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. {{Selah
- Ps 120:5-6 : 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace.
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9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
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24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
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15A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:
16He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.
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13A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
14House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
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20There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swalloweth it up.
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1Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.
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11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:
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26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [
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18The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And the treacherous [cometh] in the stead of the upright.
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13The foolish woman is clamorous; [She is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
14And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
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24Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:
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12Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.
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16Better is little, with the fear of Jehovah, Than great treasure and trouble therewith.
17Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
18A wrathful man stirreth up contention; But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
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22[ As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.
23The desire of the righteous is only good; [But] the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
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17He that is soon angry will deal foolishly; And a man of wicked devices is hated.
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23For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
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22An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.
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1Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.
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6Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.
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3It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling.
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21[ As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.
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9If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.
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56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
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5It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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24To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
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22Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
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1A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.
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1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
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10A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
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17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.
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18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
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4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
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14The beginning of strife is [as] when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
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19A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city; And [such] contentions are like the bars of a castle.
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19A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver [him], thou must do it yet again.
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14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
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20So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.
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8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;
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20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
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15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;