THEOSISProverbs 18:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.
מָצָ֣א אִ֭שָּׁה מָ֣צָא ט֑וֹב וַיָּ֥פֶק רָ֝צ֗וֹן מֵיְהוָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 19:14House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.
- Prov 31:10Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.
- Prov 31:31Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.
- Prov 12:4A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones.
- Eccl 9:9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.
- 1 Cor 7:2But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband.
- Gen 2:18And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.
- Prov 5:15Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well: