Proverbs 18:22
[Whoever] has found a wife has found good, || And brings out goodwill from YHWH.
Literal Standard Version
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, || And those loving it eat its fruit.
23The poor speaks [with] supplications, || And the rich answers fierce things.
Cross References
Genesis 2:18And YHWH God says, “[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart.”
Genesis 29:20and Jacob serves for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.
Ruth 4:10and also Ruth the Moabitess, wife of Mahlon, I have bought to myself for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance; and the name of the dead is not cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place; witnesses you [are] today.”
Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of your own cistern, || Even flowing ones out of your own well.
Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband, || And as rottenness in his bones [is] one causing shame.
Proverbs 31:10[ALEPH-BET] A woman of worth who finds? Indeed, her price [is] far above rubies.
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 →