Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Saturday in Easter Week
Saturday in Easter Week
advertisement
advertisement
advertisement
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!
Click here to join the effort!
Read the Bible
Easy-to-Read Version
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to live alone in the desert than with a quick-tempered wife who loves to argue.
Jump to:Bible Study Tools • Parallel Bible Verse • Bible Contextual Overview • Bible Cross-References • Gill's Bible Notes
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- CharlesEncyclopedias:
- InternationalParallel Translations
Christian Standard Bible®
Better to live in a wildernessthan with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.
Better to live in a wildernessthan with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.
Hebrew Names Version
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
King James Version
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
English Standard Version
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
New American Standard Bible
It is better to live in a desert land Than with a contentious and irritating woman.
It is better to live in a desert land Than with a contentious and irritating woman.
New Century Version
It is better to live alone in the desert than with a quarreling and complaining wife.
It is better to live alone in the desert than with a quarreling and complaining wife.
Amplified Bible
It is better to dwell in a desert land Than with a contentious and troublesome woman.
It is better to dwell in a desert land Than with a contentious and troublesome woman.
World English Bible
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Geneva Bible (1587)
It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and angry woman.
It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and angry woman.
Legacy Standard Bible
It is better to live in a desert landThan with a contentious and vexing woman.
It is better to live in a desert landThan with a contentious and vexing woman.
Berean Standard Bible
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Contemporary English Version
It's better out in the desert than at home with a nagging, complaining wife.
It's better out in the desert than at home with a nagging, complaining wife.
Complete Jewish Bible
It is better to live in the desert than with a nagging, irritable wife.
It is better to live in the desert than with a nagging, irritable wife.
Darby Translation
It is better to dwell in a desert land. than with a contentious and irritable woman.
It is better to dwell in a desert land. than with a contentious and irritable woman.
George Lamsa Translation
It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a quarrelsome and an angry wife.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a quarrelsome and an angry wife.
Good News Translation
Better to live out in the desert than with a nagging, complaining wife.
Better to live out in the desert than with a nagging, complaining wife.
Lexham English Bible
Better to live in a land of wilderness than with a wife of quarrels and provocation.
Better to live in a land of wilderness than with a wife of quarrels and provocation.
Literal Translation
It is better to live in a land of the wilderness than with a woman of strivings and anger.
It is better to live in a land of the wilderness than with a woman of strivings and anger.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It is better to dwell in a wyldernesse, the with a chydinge and an angrie woman.
It is better to dwell in a wyldernesse, the with a chydinge and an angrie woman.
American Standard Version
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Bible in Basic English
It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
King James Version (1611)
It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and an angry woman.
It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and an angry woman.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
It is better to dwell in the wyldernesse, then with a chydyng and an angrye woman.
It is better to dwell in the wyldernesse, then with a chydyng and an angrye woman.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.
It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.
English Revised Version
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
It is betere to dwelle in a desert lond, than with a womman ful of chidyng, and wrathful.
It is betere to dwelle in a desert lond, than with a womman ful of chidyng, and wrathful.
Update Bible Version
It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
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.
[It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
New English Translation
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and easily-provoked woman.
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and easily-provoked woman.
New King James Version
Better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and angry woman.
Better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and angry woman.
New Living Translation
It's better to live alone in the desert than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.
It's better to live alone in the desert than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.
New Life Bible
It is better to live in a desert land than with a woman who argues and causes trouble.
It is better to live in a desert land than with a woman who argues and causes trouble.
New Revised Standard
It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful wife.
It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful wife.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman, quarrelsome and provoking.
Better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman, quarrelsome and provoking.
Douay-Rheims Bible
It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.
It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.
Revised Standard Version
It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful woman.
It is better to live 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.
Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than [with] a woman of contentions and anger.
THE MESSAGE
Better to live in a tent in the wild than with a cross and petulant spouse.
Better to live in a tent in the wild than with a cross and petulant spouse.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
It is better to live in a desert land Than with a contentious and vexing woman.
It is better to live in a desert land Than with a contentious and vexing woman.
Contextual Overview
19 It is better to live alone in the desert than with a quick-tempered wife who loves to argue.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
better: Proverbs 21:9, Psalms 55:6, Psalms 55:7, Psalms 120:5, Psalms 120:6, Jeremiah 9:2
wilderness: Heb. land of the desert
Reciprocal: Proverbs 9:13 - General Proverbs 12:4 - she Proverbs 14:1 - the foolish Proverbs 15:17 - General Proverbs 17:1 - with Proverbs 19:13 - the contentions Proverbs 25:24 - General Proverbs 27:15 - A continual Proverbs 30:23 - an odious Matthew 19:10 - General
Cross-References
Genesis 21:5
Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born.
Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has made me happy, and everyone who hears about this will be happy with me.
Sarah said, "God has made me happy, and everyone who hears about this will be happy with me.
Genesis 21:16
Then she walked a short distance away and sat down. She thought her son would die because there was no water. She did not want to watch him die. She sat there and began to cry.
Then she walked a short distance away and sat down. She thought her son would die because there was no water. She did not want to watch him die. She sat there and began to cry.
Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy crying, and God's angel called to Hagar from heaven. He said, "What is wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid! God has heard the boy crying there.
God heard the boy crying, and God's angel called to Hagar from heaven. He said, "What is wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid! God has heard the boy crying there.
Genesis 21:20
God continued to be with the boy while he grew up. Ishmael lived in the desert and became a hunter. He learned to shoot a bow very well.
God continued to be with the boy while he grew up. Ishmael lived in the desert and became a hunter. He learned to shoot a bow very well.
Genesis 21:31
So after that, the well was called Beersheba. Abraham gave the well this name because it was the place where they made a promise to each other.
So after that, the well was called Beersheba. Abraham gave the well this name because it was the place where they made a promise to each other.
Numbers 22:31
Then the Lord allowed Balaam to see the angel. The Lord 's angel was standing in the road, holding a sword in his hand. Balaam bowed low to the ground.
Then the Lord allowed Balaam to see the angel. The Lord 's angel was standing in the road, holding a sword in his hand. Balaam bowed low to the ground.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[It is] better to dwell in the wilderness,.... Where persons live without shelter, and are not only exposed to storms and tempests, but to beasts of prey; where is want of the necessaries of life, and no society; where no "speech" is, as the word e for wilderness may signify; yet it is better to dwell in such a place, where no human voice is heard,
than with a contentious and an angry woman; that is always brawling and scolding, ever in a quarrelsome and angry disposition, and provoking to anger all about her; :-. In a mystical sense, it is better to be with the church in the wilderness, Revelation 12:14; than with the furious, bloodthirsty, and persecuting church of Rome, in all its worldly glory and splendour.
e מדבר "a" דבר "loqui".
