Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness , than with a contentious and an angry woman.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
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…
Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714
Matthew Henry
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
wilderness regarded, as the parallel requires, not as a barren, but as a solitaryplace.
angry Or, fretful, R.V. text; or, a contentious woman and vexation, R.V. marg. The LXX. introduce a third…
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