Proverbs 19:14
A house and wealth are inherited from parents, 1 but a prudent wife is from Yahweh. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 ruin to his father 1 and a quarreling wife is a constant dripping of water. 1
15Laziness throws a person into a deep sleep, 1 but the one not willing to work will go hungry. 1
Cross References
Genesis 24:7Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my relatives, and who promised me with a solemn oath saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 28:1Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
Joshua 11:23So Joshua captured the whole land, just as Yahweh said to Moses. Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel, assigned to each of their tribes. Then the land had rest from the wars.
Proverbs 3:6in all your ways acknowledge him 1 and he will make your paths straight. 1
Proverbs 18:22He who finds a wife finds a good thing 1 and receives favor from Yahweh. 1
Proverbs 31:26She opens her mouth with wisdom 1 and the law of kindness is on her tongue. 1
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 →