Proverbs 19:14
You inherit a house and wealth from your father, but a sensible wife is a gift from the Lord.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
In Context
15Lazy people are often fast asleep, but idleness means they're hungry.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7“The Lord, the God of heaven, took me from my family home and my own country. He spoke to me and swore an oath to me in which he promised, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’ He is the one who will send his angel ahead of you so that you can find a wife there for my son.
Genesis 28:1Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Don't marry a Canaanite woman,” he ordered him.
Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the entire land in accordance with what the Lord had instructed Moses, giving it to Israel to own as it was divided up among the tribes. Then the land was at peace.
Proverbs 3:6Remember him in everything you do, and he'll show you the right way.
Proverbs 18:22If you find a wife, that's great, and you'll be blessed by the Lord.
Proverbs 31:26She speaks wise words, and she's kind when she gives instructions.
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 →