¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

⁹ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.

⁶ I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

⁷ Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah.

⁵ Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

⁶ My soul has had her dwelling too long With him who hates peace.

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 are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.