Proverbs 21:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than `with' a woman of contentions and anger.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 21:9 : 9 Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than `with' a woman of contentions and a house of company.
  • Jer 9:2 : 2 Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them `are' adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
  • Ps 55:6-7 : 6 And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest, 7 Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.
  • Ps 120:5-6 : 5 Wo to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar. 6 Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 9Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than `with' a woman of contentions and a house of company.

  • 24Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than `with' a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

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    15A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

    16Whoso is hiding her hath hidden the wind, And the ointment of his right hand calleth out.

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    13A calamity to his father `is' a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife `are' a continual dropping.

    14House and wealth `are' the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah `is' an understanding wife.

  • 20A treasure to be desired, and oil, `Is' in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.

  • 1Better `is' a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

  • 11Noisy she `is', and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.

  • 26And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is' nets and snares, her hands `are' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

  • 18The wicked `is' an atonement for the righteous, And for the upright the treacherous dealer.

  • Prov 9:13-14
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    13A foolish woman `is' noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

    14And she hath sat at the opening of her house, On a throne -- the high places of the city,

  • 24Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

  • 12The meeting of a bereaved bear by a man, And -- not a fool in his folly.

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    16Better `is' a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it.

    17Better `is' an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

    18A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

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    22A ring of gold in the nose of a sow -- A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

    23The desire of the righteous `is' only good, The hope of the wicked `is' transgression.

  • 17Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

  • 23For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.

  • 22An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

  • 1Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

  • 6`Better `is' a handful `with' quietness, than two handfuls `with' labour and vexation of spirit.'

  • 3An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

  • 21Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.

  • 9A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.

  • 56`The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness -- her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,

  • 5Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than `for' a man to hear a song of fools,

  • 24To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

  • 22`Whoso' hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

  • 1A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

  • 1Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse `in' his lips, who `is' a fool.

  • 10A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies `is' her price.

  • 17Her ways `are' ways of pleasantness, And all her paths `are' peace.

  • 18Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

  • 4And her latter end `is' bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword `with' mouths.

  • 14The beginning of contention `is' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

  • 19A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.

  • 19A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, For, if thou dost deliver, yet again thou dost add.

  • 14A deep pit `is' the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

  • 20So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'

  • 8Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

  • 20And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

  • 15`When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;