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Proverbs 19:14

A house and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wife;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Wives;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Marriage;   Prudence;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Wives;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wife;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Family;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Marriage;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Marriage;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Fathers can give their sons an inheritance of houses and wealth, but only the Lord can give an understanding wife.
Update Bible Version
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
New Century Version
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a wise wife is a gift from the Lord .
Webster's Bible Translation
House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.
World English Bible
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Amplified Bible
House and wealth are the inheritance from fathers, But a wise, understanding, and sensible wife is [a gift and blessing] from the LORD.
English Standard Version
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord .
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Housis and richessis ben youun of fadir and modir; but a prudent wijf is youun propirli of the Lord.
English Revised Version
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers: but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Contemporary English Version
You may inherit all you own from your parents, but a sensible wife is a gift from the Lord .
American Standard Version
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
Complete Jewish Bible
A house and wealth are inherited from ancestors, but a sensible wife is from Adonai .
Darby Translation
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
People receive houses and money from their parents, but a good wife is a gift from the Lord .
JPS Old Testament (1917)
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers; but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
House and riches, are the inheritance of fathers; and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
New Life Bible
House and riches are handed down from fathers, but an understanding wife is from the Lord.
New Revised Standard
House and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord .
Geneva Bible (1587)
House & riches are the inheritance of the fathers: but a prudent wife commeth of the Lord.
George Lamsa Translation
House and riches are the inheritance from fathers; but a wife is betrothed to a man from the LORD.
Good News Translation
A man can inherit a house and money from his parents, but only the Lord can give him a sensible wife.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
House and substance, are an inheritance from one's fathers, but, from Yahweh, cometh a wife who is prudent.
Douay-Rheims Bible
House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
House and riches may a man haue by the heritage of his elders: but a discrete woman is the gyft of the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Fathers divide house and substance to their children: but a wife is suited to a man by the Lord.
Christian Standard Bible®
A house and wealth are inherited from fathers,but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.
King James Version
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
A house and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, but from Yahweh comes a woman who is prudent.
Literal Translation
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers, but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
Young's Literal Translation
House and wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah [is] an understanding wife.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
House & riches maye a ma haue by ye heretage of his elders, but a discrete woma is the gifte of the LORDE.
THE MESSAGE
House and land are handed down from parents, but a congenial spouse comes straight from God .
New American Standard Bible
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.
New King James Version
Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Legacy Standard Bible
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers,But a wife who has insight is from Yahweh.

Contextual Overview

14 A house and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the inheritance: Proverbs 13:22, Deuteronomy 21:16, Joshua 11:23, 2 Corinthians 12:14

and a: Proverbs 3:6, Proverbs 18:22, Proverbs 31:10-31, Genesis 24:7, Genesis 28:1-4, James 1:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:22 - brought Genesis 24:14 - she that Genesis 24:44 - the woman Ruth 4:10 - have I 1 Samuel 25:39 - to take her Proverbs 12:4 - virtuous Ecclesiastes 9:9 - with the wife Matthew 19:10 - General John 2:1 - a marriage 1 Corinthians 7:2 - let

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men—both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom—surrounded the house.
Genesis 19:8
Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
Genesis 19:12
Then the two visitors said to Lot, "Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place
Genesis 19:14
Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said, "Quick, get out of this place because the Lord is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them outside, they said, "Run for your lives! Don't look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!"
Genesis 19:22
Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)
Genesis 19:28
He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Genesis 19:30
Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
Exodus 9:21
but those who did not take the word of the Lord seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.
Exodus 12:31
Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, "Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the Lord as you have requested!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Houses and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers,.... Which they are careful to provide and leave to their children. This they may and often do, build or purchase houses, and procure great riches, and put their children into the possession of them;

and, or but,

a prudent wife [is] from the Lord; one that behaves well to her husband, massages the affairs of her house with wisdom, and brings up her children in all orderly manner: such a wife no man has from the care and provision of his parents; nor so much from his own good choice and industry as from the kind providence of God, to which he should ascribe it; his parents may give him houses and lands, but it is God that gives him a wise and discreet woman to be an helpmeet to him; see

Proverbs 18:22.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:14. A prudent wife is from the Lord. — One who has a good understanding, אשה משכלת ishshah mascaleth; who avoids complaining, though she may often have cause for it.


 
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