Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
House	בַּ֣יִת Ba.yit	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular absolute
riches	וָ֭הוֹן Va.hon	H1952	wealth · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
inheritance	נַחֲלַ֣ת na.cha.Lat	H5159	properly · noun, common feminine singular construct
fathers	אָב֑וֹת 'a.Vot	H1	father · noun, common feminine plural absolute
prudent	מַשְׂכָּֽלֶת mas.Ka.let	H7919	to be (causatively · verb, hiphil active participle, feminine singular absolute
wife	אִשָּׁ֥ה 'i.Shah	H802	a woman · noun, common feminine singular absolute
LORD	וּ֝מֵיְהוָ֗ה vu.me.Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · conjunction + preposition + proper noun, a title

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Cross-references

Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Proverbs 31:10-31 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shado…
Genesis 28:1-4 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
2 Corinthians 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought…
Deuteronomy 21:16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the so…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:14

Note, 1. A discreet and virtuous wife is a choice gift of God's providence to a man - a wife that is prudent, in opposition to one that is contentious, Pro 19:13. For, though a wife that is continually finding fault may think it is her wit and wisdom to be so, it is really her folly; a prudent wife is meek and quiet, and makes the best of every thing. If a man has such a wife, let him not ascribe it to the wisdom of his own choice or his own management (for the wisest have been deceived both in and by a woman), but let him ascribe it to the goodness of God, who made him a help meet for him, and perhaps by some hits and turns of providence that seemed casual brought her to him. Every creature…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 19:14

A contrast of men's gifts and God's, who, though author of both blessings, confers the latter by His more special providence. and--or, "but," implying that the evils of Pro 19:13 are only avoided by His care.

John Gill on Proverbs 19:14

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 d…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 19:14

14 House and riches are a paternal inheritance, But from Jahve cometh a prudent wife. House and riches (opulentia), which in themselves do not make men happy, one may receive according to the law of inheritance; but a prudent wife is God's gracious gift, Pro 18:22. There is not a more suitable word than משׂכּלת (fem. of משׂכּיל) to characterize a wife as a divine gift, making her husband happy. שׂכל (השׂכּל) is the property which says: "I am named modesty, which wears the crown of all virtues." (Note: The lxx translates: παρὰ δὲ ἁρμόζεται γυνὴ ἀνδοί. Here as often (vid., my Jesurun) The Arab. usus loquendi makes itself felt in the idiom of the lxx, for shâkl means ἁρμόζειν.)

The Church Fathers

Thus when a certain wise man saith, "It is by the Lord that a man is matched with a woman," he means this, God made marriage, and not that it is He that joineth together every man that cometh to be with a woman. For we see many that come to be with one another for evil, even by the law of marriage, and this we should not ascribe to God. But as He said Himself, "He which made them at the beginning, made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh." And this is what that wise man meant to explain. For since equality of honor does many times lead to fightings, He hath made many governments and forms of subjection; as that, for instance, of man and wife, that of son and father, that of old men and young, that of bond and free, that of ruler and ruled, that of master and disciple.
— John Chrysostom, HOMILIES ON ROMANS 23:13.1

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Dictionary and topics

Wife · UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO — UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Wives · Good: Are from the Lord — Good: Are from the Lord

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Proverbs 19:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 19:14

John Gill on Proverbs 19:14

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 19:14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Proverbs 19:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 19:14

John Gill on Proverbs 19:14

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 19:14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 19:13-14

Rashi on Proverbs 19:13