Proverbs 18:22
He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
In Context
21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.
23A poor man uses entreaties, but a rich man answers roughly.
Cross References
Genesis 2:18And LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make a help meet for him.
Genesis 29:20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Ruth 4:10Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his plac
Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 12:4A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 31:10A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:22
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Note, 1. A man may do a great deal of good, or a great deal of hurt, both to others and to himself, according to the use he makes of his tongue. Many a one has been his own death by a foul tongue, or the death of others by a false tongue; and, on the contrary, many a one has saved his own life, or procured the comfort of it, by a prudent gentle tongue, and saved the lives of others by a seasonable testimony or… Read the whole commentary →