Proverbs 21:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Proverbs 21:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 21:1 . watercourses: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Prove...
Proverbs 21:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Than, &c. Supply the Ellipsis thus: Than [in. house, or palace].
Proverbs 21:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Proverbs 21:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. Compare Proverbs 21:9 .
Proverbs 21:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon ( Isaiah 58:11 ).
Proverbs 21:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the prov...
Proverbs 21:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 21:4 . The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man t...
Proverbs 21:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. When the scorner is p...
Proverbs 21:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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,...
Proverbs 21:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 21:19 [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. Ver. 19. It is better to dwell in the wilderness. ] Among ravenous beasts and venomous serpe...
Proverbs 21:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. Note, 1. Unbridled passions embitter and spoil the comfort of all relations. A peevish angry...
Proverbs 21:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Than, understand, in a wide house , as it is expressed above, Proverbs 21:9 , and as the opposition here requires.
Proverbs 21:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 21:18 THE RANSOM OF THE RIGHTEOUS This verse must be understood to express the same truth as that in Isaiah 43:3 , in which Jehovah, speaking to the Hebrew people,...
Proverbs 21:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 21:1 . The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn fi...
Proverbs 21:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and an angry woman. An angry woman I. No social discomfort is to be compared to that of an ill-tempered wife. A corner of the hou...
Proverbs 21:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the...
Proverbs 21:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 19. It is better to dwell in the wilderness, far from the habitations of men, than with a contentious and an angry woman. Cf v. 9.
Proverbs 21:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 9:2 ; Proverbs 21:9 ; Psalms 120:5 ; Psalms 120:6 ; Psalms 55:6 ; Psalms 55:7

Proverbs 21:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 21:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 21:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 21:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 21:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 21:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 21:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 21:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 21:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 21:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 21:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 21:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 21:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 21:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 21:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 21:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 21:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 21:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge