¹⁹ It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

⁹ It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

⁶ And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

⁷ I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)

⁵ Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.

⁶ My soul has long been living with the haters of peace.

² If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.