Proverbs 21:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Proverbs 21:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Psalms 120:5-6
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! …
Jeremiah 9:2
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.
Psalms 55:6-7
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19)

Note, 1. Unbridled passions embitter and spoil the comfort of all relations. A peevish angry wife makes her husband’s life uneasy, to whom she should be a comfort and a meet help. Those cannot dwell in peace and happiness that cannot dwell in peace and love. Even those that are one flesh, if they be not withal one spirit, have no joy of their union. 2. It is better to have no company than bad comp…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. (Compare Pr 21:9). wilderness--pasture, though uninhabitable ground (Psa 65:12).