New Revised Standard Version
It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful wife.

Contemporary English Version
It's better out in the desert than at home with a nagging, complaining wife.

New American Bible
It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome wife and trouble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

better

Proverbs 21:9 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

Psalm 55:6,7 And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest? . . .

Psalm 120:5,6 Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar: . . .

Jeremiah 9:2 Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

wilderness or the land of the desert