Proverbs 19:14
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
World Messianic 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 the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7The LORD, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 28:1Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by 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 18:22Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.
Proverbs 31:26She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind 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 →