Proverbs 19:14
Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Majority Standard Bible
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 his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 28:1So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
Proverbs 3:6in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 18:22He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Proverbs 31:26She opens her mouth with wisdom, and faithful instruction 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 →