Proverbs 19:14
Fathers divide house and substance to their children: but a wife is suited to a man by the Lord.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
In Context
13A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows paid out of the hire of a harlot are not pure.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7The Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land whence I sprang, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, I will give this land to you and to your seed, he shall send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife to my son from thence.
Genesis 28:1And Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites.
Joshua 11:23And Joshua took all the land, as the Lord commanded Moses; and Joshua gave them for an inheritance to Israel by division according to their tribes; and the land ceased from war.
Proverbs 3:6In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly + 3:6 Gr. divide. See 2 Tim 2:13. direct your paths.
Proverbs 18:22He that has found a good wife has found favours, and has received gladness from God. + 18:22 Heb. omits this verse. He that puts away a good wife, puts away a + 18:22 Gr. plural. good thing, and he that keeps an adulteress is foolish and ungodly.
Proverbs 31:26But she opens her mouth wisely, and according to law.
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 →