THEOSISProverbs 19:14Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.
בַּ֣יִת וָ֭הוֹן נַחֲלַ֣ת אָב֑וֹת וּ֝מֵיְהוָ֗ה אִשָּׁ֥ה מַשְׂכָּֽלֶת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 18:22He 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.
- 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 3:6In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.
- Prov 13:22The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.
- Jas 1:17Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.
- 2 Cor 12:14Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
- Gen 28:1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan: