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Pro 21:19 — [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

better		Pro 21:9; Psa 55:6,7; Psa 120:5,6; Jer 9:2
wilderness		Heb. land of the desert.

Correlating Passages

better

	Pro 21:9	[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
	Psa 55:6	And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I fly away, and be at rest.
	Psa 55:7	Lo, [then] would I wander far off, [and] remain in the wilderness. Selah.
	Psa 120:5	Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, [that] I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
	Psa 120:6	My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
	Jer 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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Proverbs 21:19," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Pro/21/19.html>.

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