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Douay-Rheims Bible

Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly 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

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 .
English Standard Version
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord .
New American Standard Bible
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.
New Century Version
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a wise wife is a gift from the Lord .
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.
World English Bible
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
House & riches are the inheritance of the fathers: but a prudent wife commeth of the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers,But a wife who has insight is from Yahweh.
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 .
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
English Revised Version
House and riches are an inheritance 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.
Update Bible Version
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.
New English Translation
A house and wealth are inherited from parents, 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 Living Translation
Fathers can give their sons an inheritance of houses and wealth, but only the Lord can give an understanding wife.
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 .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
House and substance, are an inheritance from one's fathers, but, from Yahweh, cometh a wife who is prudent.
Revised Standard Version
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
House and wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah [is] an understanding wife.
THE MESSAGE
House and land are handed down from parents, but a congenial spouse comes straight from God .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Contextual Overview

14 House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly 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
But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house, both young and old, all the people together.
Genesis 19:8
I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.
Genesis 19:12
And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine? son in law, or sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:
Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
Genesis 19:17
And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.
Genesis 19:22
Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.
Genesis 19:28
He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19:30
And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his two daughters with him (for he was afraid to stay in Segor) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.
Exodus 9:21
But he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his servants, and his cattle in the fields.
Exodus 12:31
And Pharao calling Moses and Aaron, in the night, said: Arise and go forth from among my people, you and the children of Israel: go, sacrifice to the Lord as you say.

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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