Proverbs 19:14
House and riches may a man haue by the heritage of his elders: but a discrete woman is the gyft of the Lorde.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
In Context
15Slouthfulnesse bryngeth sleepe, and a soule accustomed with craft, shall suffer hunger.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7The Lorde God of heauen whiche toke me from my fathers house, & from the land of my kinred, and which spake vnto me, and that sware vnto me, saying, vnto thy seede wyll I geue this lande: he shall sende his angell before thee, and thou shalt take a wyfe vnto my sonne from thence.
Genesis 28:1And so Isahac called Iacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and sayde vnto hym: See thou take not a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan:
Proverbs 3:6In all thy wayes acknowledge him, and he shall order thy goynges.
Proverbs 18:22Who so findeth a wyfe, findeth a good thing, and receaueth fauour of the Lorde.
Proverbs 31:26She openeth her mouth with wisdome, and in her tongue is the lawe of grace.
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 →