Proverbs 21:19 - Exposition

A variant of Proverbs 21:9 . Here, instead of the "corner of the roof," we have a wilderness, a desert land, as the refuge to which the persecuted man must flee. Than with a contentious and an angry ( fretful ) woman . So the Vulgate. But it seems better, with many modern commentators, to take וָכָעַם , not as another epithet, but as equivalent to "and vexation," i.e. a quarrelsome wife, and the vexation that accompanies such an infliction. The LXX . adds a word to the text, as being at the root of the matter, "Than with a quarrelsome, talkative, and passionate woman."