Proverbs 19:14
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
In Context
13A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, he will send his [heavenly] agent before thee, and
Genesis 28:1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and ordered him, and said to him, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that LORD spoke to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.
Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.
Proverbs 18:22He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from LORD.
Proverbs 31:26She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the law of kindness is on her tongue.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:14
13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. It is an instance of the vanity of the world that we are liable to the greatest grief in those things wherein we promise ourselves the greatest comfort. It is as it proves. What greater temporal comfort can a man have than a good wife and good children? Yet, 1. A foolish son is a great affliction, and may make a man wish a thousand times he had been written childless. A son that will apply himself to no study or… Read the whole commentary →