Proverbs 19:14
House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
In Context
15Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.
Genesis 28:1Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;
Joshua 11:23So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it to the children of Israel as their heritage, making division of it among them by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.
Proverbs 3:6In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
Proverbs 18:22Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.
Proverbs 31:26Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy 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 →