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Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 19:14

House and wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah [is] an understanding wife.

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.
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.
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 wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah [is] an understanding wife.

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 lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;
Genesis 19:8
lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.'
Genesis 19:12
And the men say unto Lot, `Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out from this place;
Genesis 19:14
And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, `Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as [one] mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:17
And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, `Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.'
Genesis 19:22
haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.
Genesis 19:28
and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.
Genesis 19:30
And Lot goeth up out of Zoar, and dwelleth in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he hath been afraid of dwelling in Zoar, and he dwelleth in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Exodus 9:21
and he who hath not set his heart unto the word of Jehovah leaveth his servants and his cattle in the field.
Exodus 12:31
and he calleth for Moses and for Aaron by night, and saith, `Rise, go out from the midst of my people, both ye and the sons of Israel, and go, serve Jehovah according to your word;

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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