Proverbs 18:22
He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.
23The poor will speak with supplications, and the rich will speak roughly.
Cross References
Genesis 2:18And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.
Genesis 29:20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.
Ruth 4:10And have taken to wife Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.
Proverbs 5:15Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
Proverbs 12:4A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is a rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 31:10Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.
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 →