Proverbs 21:19
New International Version
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.

New Living Translation
It’s better to live alone in the desert than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.

English Standard Version
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Berean Standard Bible
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

King James Bible
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

New King James Version
Better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and angry woman.

New American Standard Bible
It is better to live in a desert land Than with a contentious and irritating woman.

NASB 1995
It is better to live in a desert land Than with a contentious and vexing woman.

NASB 1977
It is better to live in a desert land, Than with a contentious and vexing woman.

Legacy Standard Bible
It is better to live in a desert land Than with a contentious and vexing woman.

Amplified Bible
It is better to dwell in a desert land Than with a contentious and troublesome woman.

Christian Standard Bible
Better to live in a wilderness than with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Better to live in a wilderness than with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.

American Standard Version
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Better to stay in the land of the wilderness than to dwell with a contentious and angry woman.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.

Contemporary English Version
It's better out in the desert than at home with a nagging, complaining wife.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

English Revised Version
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Better to live in a desert than with a quarreling and angry woman.

Good News Translation
Better to live out in the desert than with a nagging, complaining wife.

International Standard Version
It's better to live in the wilderness than to live with a contentious and irritable woman.

JPS Tanakh 1917
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Literal Standard Version
Better to dwell in a wilderness land, | Than [with] a woman of contentions and anger.

Majority Standard Bible
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

New American Bible
It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome wife and trouble.

NET Bible
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and easily-provoked woman.

New Revised Standard Version
It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful wife.

New Heart English Bible
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Webster's Bible Translation
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

World English Bible
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Young's Literal Translation
Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The King's Heart
18The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright. 19Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife. 20Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.…

Cross References
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

Proverbs 21:9
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.


Treasury of Scripture

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

better

Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Psalm 55:6,7
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest…

Psalm 120:5,6
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! …

wilderness or the land of the desert

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Verse 19. - A variant of ver. 9. Here, instead of the "corner of the roof," we have a wilderness, a desert land, as the refuge to which the persecuted man must flee. Than with a contentious and an angry (fretful) woman. So the Vulgate. But it seems better, with many modern commentators, to take וָכָעַם, not as another epithet, but as equivalent to "and vexation," i.e. a quarrelsome wife, and the vexation that accompanies such an infliction. The LXX. adds a word to the text, as being at the root of the matter, "Than with a quarrelsome, talkative, and passionate woman."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Better
ט֗וֹב (ṭō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

to live
שֶׁ֥בֶת (še·ḇeṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

in the desert
בְּאֶֽרֶץ־ (bə·’e·reṣ-)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

than with a contentious
מִדְיָנִ֣ים (miḏ·yā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4066: A contest, quarrel

and ill-tempered
וָכָֽעַס׃ (wā·ḵā·‘as)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3708: Vexation, anger

wife.
מֵאֵ֖שֶׁת (mê·’ê·šeṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female


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