Proverbs 21:19
It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
- Jer 9:2 : 2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
- Ps 55:6-7 : 6 And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest. 7 I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)
- Ps 120:5-6 : 5 Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar. 6 My soul has long been living with the haters of peace.
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9 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
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24 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
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15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
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13 A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
14 House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
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20 There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.
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1 Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.
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11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
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26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
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18 The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
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13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.
14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,
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24 Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:
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12 It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.
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16 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.
17 Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
18 An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.
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22 Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.
23 The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.
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17 He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.
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23 A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.
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22 An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.
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1 Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.
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6 One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.
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3 It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.
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21 Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
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9 If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.
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56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;
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24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
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22 Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.
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1 By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.
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1 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.
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10 Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.
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17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.
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18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
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4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
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14 The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.
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19 A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower.
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19 A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again.
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14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
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20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.
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8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
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20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
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15 If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife: