Proverbs 19:14
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Webster 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: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.
Genesis 28:1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.
Proverbs 18:22Whoever findeth a wife findeth a good thing , and obtaineth favor from the LORD.
Proverbs 31:26She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and on her tongue is the law of kindness.
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 →