Proverbs 21:19
¶ [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 21:9 : 9 ¶ [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling 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 [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
- Ps 55:6-7 : 6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I fly away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, [then] would I wander far off, [and] remain in the wilderness. Selah.
- Ps 120:5-6 : 5 ¶ Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, [that] I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
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9 ¶ [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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15 ¶ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].
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13 ¶ A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
14 ¶ House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.
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20 ¶ [There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
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1 ¶ Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.
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11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
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13 ¶ A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
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16 ¶ Better [is] little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
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22 ¶ [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.
23 ¶ The desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the wicked [is] wrath.
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17 ¶ [He that is] soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
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23 For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
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22 ¶ An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
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6 Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.
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3 ¶ [It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
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24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
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8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
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20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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