Proverbs 19:14
House and wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, || And an understanding wife [is] from YHWH.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
In Context
15Sloth causes deep sleep to fall, || And an indolent soul hungers.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7YHWH, God of the heavens, who has taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, To your seed I give this land, He sends His messenger before you, and you have taken a wife for my son from there;
Genesis 28:1And Isaac calls to Jacob, and blesses him, and commands him, and says to him, “You must not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
Joshua 11:23And Joshua takes the whole of the land, according to all that YHWH has spoken to Moses, and Joshua gives it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions, by their tribes; and the land has rest from war.
Proverbs 3:6In all your ways know Him, || And He makes your paths straight.
Proverbs 18:22[Whoever] has found a wife has found good, || And brings out goodwill from YHWH.
Proverbs 31:26She has opened her mouth in 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 →