Proverbs 19:14
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but from the Lord [cometh] an intelligent wife.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
In Context
13A calamity unto his father is a foolish son; and a continual dropping are the quarrels of a wife.
15Slothfulness casteth [man] into a deep sleep; and an indolent soul will suffer hunger.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, and who spoke unto me, and who swore unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from there.
Genesis 28:1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
Joshua 11:23And Joshua' took the whole land, all just as the Lord had spoken unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto 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 level thy paths.
Proverbs 18:22Whoso hath found a wife hath found happiness, and hath obtained favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 31:26She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and the law of kindness 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 →