Proverbs 19:14
House and wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah [is] an understanding wife.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
In Context
15Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.
Cross References
Genesis 24:7Jehovah, God of the heavens, who hath taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who hath spoken to me, and who hath sworn to me, saying, To thy seed I give this land, He doth send His messenger before thee, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from thence;
Genesis 28:1And Isaac calleth unto Jacob, and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, 'Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan;
Joshua 11:23And Joshua taketh the whole of the land, according to all that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses, and Joshua giveth it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions, by their tribes; and the land hath rest from war.
Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.
Proverbs 18:22[Whoso] hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
Proverbs 31:26Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness [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 →