Proverbs 19:14
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
Darby Translation
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 casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7Jehovah the God of the heavens, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land of my nativity, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land he will send his angel before thee, that thou mayest take a wife for my son thence.
Genesis 28:1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Joshua 11:23And Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions, by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
Proverbs 3:6in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make plain thy paths.
Proverbs 18:22Whoso hath found a wife hath found a good thing, and hath obtained favour from Jehovah.
Proverbs 31:26She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and upon her tongue is the law of kindness.
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 →