Proverbs 19:14
A house and its riches are given by parents. But a prudent wife is particularly from the Lord.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
In Context
15Laziness sends one into a deep sleep, and a dissolute soul will go hungry.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my nativity, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ himself will send his Angel before you, and you will take from there a wife for my son.
Genesis 28:1And so Isaac called for Jacob, and he blessed him, and he instructed him, saying: “Do not be willing to accept a mate from the family of Canaan.
Joshua 11:23Thus, Joshua seized all the land, just as the Lord spoke to Moses, and he delivered it as a possession to the sons of Israel, according to their divisions and tribes. And the land rested from battles.
Proverbs 3:6In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.
Proverbs 18:22He who has found a good wife has found goodness, and he shall draw contentment from the Lord. He who expels a good wife expels goodness. But he who holds on to an adulteress is foolish and impious.
Proverbs 31:26She has opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency 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 →