Proverbs 19:14
House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
In Context
15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father's house, and out of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To thy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son.
Genesis 28:1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:
Joshua 11:23So Josue took all the land, as the Lord spoke to Moses, and delivered it in possession to the children of Israel, according to their divisions and tribes. And the land rested from wars.
Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.
Proverbs 18:22He 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.
Proverbs 31:26She hath 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 →