Pro 21:19
{It is} better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. {in...: Heb. in the land of the desert}
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{It is} better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. {a brawling...: Heb. a woman of contentions} {a wide...: Heb. an house of society}
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! {for then} would I fly away, and be at rest.
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, {that} I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
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.
Better {is} a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices {with} strife. {sacrifices: or, good cheer}
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
{It is} better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. {a brawling...: Heb. a woman of contentions} {a wide...: Heb. an house of society}
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
A virtuous woman {is} a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed {is} as rottenness in his bones.
Better {is} a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
{It is} better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
For an odious {woman} when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
A foolish woman {is} clamorous: {she is} simple, and knoweth nothing.
A foolish son {is} the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife {are} a continual dropping.
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with {his} wife, it is not good to marry.